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how it happens that man vivifies and personifies his 

 own image in duplicate, or else the apparitions of 

 dreams or their rellections, and the echoes of nature, 

 and ultimately the spirits of the dead. 



Tylor developed his theory more distinctly and at 

 greater length, and he brought to bear upon it great 

 genius, extraordinary knowledge, and a sound critical 

 faculty, so that his work must be regarded as one of 

 the most remarkable in the history of human thought. 

 He belongs to the school of evolution, and his book 

 strongly confirms the truths of that theory ; since 

 from the primitive germs of myth, from the various 

 and most simple forms of fetishes among all races, 

 he gradually evolves these rude images into more 

 complex and anthropomorphic forms, until he attains 

 the limits of natural and positive science. He admits 

 that there are in mankind various normal and ab- 

 normal sources of myth, but he comes to the ultimate 

 conclusion that they all depend on man's peculiar and 

 spontaneous tendency to aid mate all things, whence 

 his general principle has taken the name of animism. 

 It is unnecessary to say much in praise of this learned 

 work, since it is known to all, and cannot be too much 

 studied by those who wish for instruction on such 

 subjects. 



But while assenting to his general principle, which 

 remains as the sole ultimate source of all mythical 

 representation, I repeat the usual inquiry ; what 

 causes man to animate all the objects which surround 



