[46] Cf. Jane E. Harrison, Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, especially ch. iv; The same, Themis, especially ch. i, ii, iii and ix; with which compare the Pueblo cults referred to above.
[47] Cf., e. g., Skeat, Malay Magic, perhaps especially ch. v, section on the cultivation of rice.
[48] Hence animism, which applies its conceptions to inanimate rather than animate objects.
[49] The like applies in the case of the seasonal and meteorological myths; where it happens rarely if at all that the phenomena of the seasons or the forces that come in evidence in meteorological changes are personified directly or unambiguously. It is always some god or dæmon that controls or uses the wind and the weather, some indwelling sprite or manlike giant that inhabits and watches over the hill or spring or river, and it is always the interests of the indwelling personality rather than that of the tangible objects in the case that are to be safeguarded by the superstitious practices with which the myth surrounds men’s intercourse with these features of the landscape.
[50] As in the legends of Prometheus; compare legends and ritual of fire from various cultures in L. Frobenius, The Childhood of Man, ch. xxv-xxvii.
[51] For an interesting illustration of this point see a paper by Duncan Mackenzie on “Cretan Palaces” in the Annual of the British School at Athens for 1907–1908, where the whole discussion hangs on the fact, unquestioned by any one of the disputants in a wide and warm controversy, that during some centuries of unwholesome nuisance from smoky fires in draughty rooms the great civilisation of the Mediterranean seaboard never hit on the ready solution of the difficulty by putting in a chimney.
[52] Cf., e. g., W. James, Principles of Psychology, ch. xxiv; McDougall, Social Psychology, ch. iii.
[53] Cf., e. g., M. F. Washburn, The Animal Mind, ch. xii, xiii.
[54] For illustrations see Dudley Kidd, The Essential Kafir, especially ch. ii, on “Native Beliefs.”
[55] Cf. “The Place of Science in Modern Civilisation,” Journal of Sociology, March, 1906, pp. 585–609; “The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View,” University of California Chronicle, vol. x, pp. 396–415.