MYtHoAIND SCI ENGI 
By aito ViIGcNn oD, 
12mo0. Cloth, $1.80. 
Contents: The Ideas and Sources of Myth; Animal Sensation and 
Perception; Human Sensation and Perception ; Statement of the Prob- 
lem ; The Animal and Human Exercise of the Intellect in the Perception 
of Things; The Intrinsic law of the Faculty of Apprehension ; The His- 
torical Evolution of Myth and Science ; Of Dreams, Illusions, Normal and 
Abnormal Hallucinations, Delirium, and Madness. 
‘¢ His book is ingenious; . . . his theory of how science gradually dif- 
ferentiated from and conquered myth is extremely well wrought out, and is 
probably in essentials correct.”—Saturday Review. 
‘‘ Tito Vignoli’s treatise is a valuable contribution to the public book- 
table at the present moment, when the issues between faith and fact are so 
much discussed. The author holds that the myth-making faculty is a con- 
stant attendant of human progress, and that its action is manifest to-day in 
the most highly cultivated peoples as well as in the most undeveloped. 
The difference is, that its activity in the former case is limited, or rather 
neutralized, by the scientific faculties, and consequently is no longer allowed 
to grow into legends and mythologies of the primitive pattern. ‘The author 
traces both myth and science to their common source in sensation and per- 
ception, which he treats under the separate titles of ‘ animal’ and *‘ human.’ 
He makes clear the distinctive operations of perception and apprehension, 
and traces, in a wide survey of history and human life, a most interesting 
array of examples illustrating the evolution of myth and science.””—Wew 
York Home Journal. ; 
‘The book is a strong one, and far more interesting to the general 
reader than its title would indicate. The learning, the acuteness, the strong 
reasoning power, and the scientific spirit of the author, command admira- 
tion.”—New York Christian Advocate. 
‘*¢ An essay of such length as to merit a different title, and of sufficient 
originality to merit more than common attention.’’— Chicago Times. 
*¢ An attempt made, with much ability and no smail measure of success 
to trace the origin and development of the myth. The author has pursued 
his inquiry with much patience and ingenuity, and has produced a very 
readable and luminous treatise.”’— Philadelphia North American. 
‘‘ A very interesting work, which, first published in Italy, created a 
es deal of interest there, and will scarcely do less in this country.””— 
oston Post. 
‘¢ This intensely interesting volume.’’—Albany (New York) Press. 
‘‘ Tt is a curious if not startling contribution both to psychology and to 
the early history of man’s development.””—Wew York World. 
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