The method and direction of the theories proposed by these authors are excellent; but I do not believe that they have discovered the real origin of the sense of music and dancing. I think that the suggestion given in the text, although it requires development, is nearer the truth. Consciousness of the great law by which things exist in a classified form seems to me to be the cause of the sense of graduated pleasure, which constitutes the essence of all the arts.
[37] See Beauquier's "Philosophie de la Musique."
[38] Serv. on the Æneid. What the oracles sang was termed carmentis: the seers used to be called carmentes, and the books in which their sayings were inscribed were termed carmentorios.
[39] See Girard de Rialle: Mythologie Comparée. Vol. I. Paris, 1878. A valuable and learned work.
[40] The intense character of the worship of groves in Italy appears from Quintilianus, who says, in speaking of Ennius: "Ennium sicut sacros vetustate lucos adoremus."
INDEX.
A priori ideas, their definition, [7], [8];
the source of myth, [9]
Abstraction, unconscious and explicit, [138];
its degrees, [139-150]
Æschylus, [110]
Alger on the doctrine of a future life, [74]
Animals and man, their intimate connection, [19];
their embryogenic evolution, [19];
their complete identity, [22];
their self-consciousness, [50];
the projection of themselves on other
animals and phenomena, [51], [53], [54], [55], [161];
experiments on, [60-64]
Animation of extrinsic phenomena, [28], [58-65], [111], [125-128]
Anthropomorphism, [90], [97], [106], [181]
Apprehension, act of, [116];
by animals, [118];
psychical law of, [119];
three elements of, [120];
by a man, [122-127]
Arbrousset on the Basutos, [75]
Aristotle, his teaching, [231]
Aryan family, its primitive unity with the Semitic, [31];
its mythology, [179], [197], [219];
its conception of Christianity, [184-192]
Bridgman, Laura, [207]
Christ, the apotheosis of man, [187]
Christianity, its diffusion, [178-192];
its anthropomorphism, [181]
Dead, the worship of, [15]
Demoniacal beliefs, [77], [78], [79]
Descartes, [234]
Doric school, [211]
Dreams, [253], [259], [270]
Entification, the term, [153];
of speech, [310]
Eleatic school, [211]
Epicarmos, [109]
Evolution, of monotheism, [151];
of the faculties of myth and science, [157];
of language, [201-204];
of writing, [209];
of music, [295-303]
Experiments on animals, [60-64]
Fetish worship, [78],[94-97], [163], [168], [291], [311]
Finns, their mythology, [101]
Galileo, [235]
Greece, her philosophy, [210-217];
her mythology, [99], [130]
Hallucinations, [272], [281]
Hawaïans, their concrete language, [86]
Ionic school, [210]
Kant, [233]
M'Lennan on the worship of plants and animals, [73]
Man, his intimate connection with animals, [19-23];
his psychical force, [26];
estimated according to his absolute value, [35];
his power of reflection, [23], [52], [163];
his connection with the universal system, [36]
Mannhardt, his Deutsche Mythologie, [100]
Max Müller, his theory of myth, [11], [99]
Mara, incubus, [77]
Monotheism, not the first intuition of man, [104]
its evolution, [151]
Multiplicity of souls, believed by various races, [165]
Myth, the spontaneous form of human intelligence, [1];
its persistence, [3], [33], [136];
its germ interchangeable with that of science, [9], [131], [132];
its problem unsolved, [12];
its gradual disappearance, [33];
its constant forms, [40];
its origin in reflex power, [91];
its second form, [95];
its evolution into science, [113];
its various stages, [160-174]
Mythology, Indian, [10];
Finnish, [101];
Vedic, Greek, and Latin, [130], [198];
its historic results, [175-192];
Aryan, [179], [196], [219];
Pagan, [184]
Music, its evolution, [295-305]
New Zealand, original meaning of words, [89]
Perception, primitive human, [69];
identical in man and in animals, [133];
the product and cause of myth, [153]
Personification, by animals, [66];
by man, [80];
of internal perceptions, [81];
of homologous types, [81];
of specific types, [84];
Pindar, [199]
Platonic school, [220-230]
Polynesian language, [89]
Polytheism, its origin, [98]
Pythagorean school, [214-217]
Reflex power in man, [23], [52];
its slow growth, [163]
Ribot, his Psychologie Allemande, [39]
Roman mythology, [95]
Sanscrit roots, [201]
Science, a factor of intellectual life, [4];
its germ interchangeable with myth, [9], [131], [132];
as a whole, revealed in its several parts, [35];
its effect on myth, [112], [194]
Semitic idea, [177];
race, [191]
Social life based on the order of nature, [38]
Societies, the genesis of, [30]
Sociology, its foundation in the study of myth, [41], [45]
Sophocles, [110]
Spencer, his Sociology, [14]
Tahiti, [89]
Tasmanians, their customs, [42-44]
Thales, his teaching, [212]
Transmigration of souls, [166]
Tylor on Primitive Culture, [14], [16];
his theory of animism, [16]
Veda, the personification of phenomena, [71];
Vedic mythology, [76], [98], [130], [219];
Vedic hymn, [217]
Victory of the natural sciences, [237]
Zeller on monotheism, [108]