40 MYTH AND SCIENCE. 



us, and also will declare the nature of the laws which 

 govern the various and manifold creation of forms, 

 imaginations, and ideas, and the artificial world of 

 phantasms derived from these. In this way myth 

 will appear to be not merely due to the direct 

 animation of things, varying in our waking state 

 with the nature of the exciting cause ; but it also 

 arises from the normal images and illusions of 

 dreams, and from the morbid hallucinations of mad- 

 ness, both subjectively in the case of the person 

 affected by them, and objectively for those who observe 

 the extrinsic effects in gesture and speech, and the 

 whole bearing of the sufferer. 



Every one must admit that all these phenomena, 

 and the beliefs which arise from them, must tend to 

 make the observation of psychical life more easy, just 

 as morbid psychical phenomena often explain the 

 natural action of such life under normal conditions. 

 These phenomena, so closely connected with physio- 

 logical disturbances which are beyond the control of 

 our personal will, will inform us of the biological 

 relations between consciousness and thought on the 

 one side, and our organism on the other. 



The mythical faculty, as we shall see in the follow- 

 ing chapters, combined with physiological excitements, 

 l><>th normal and abnormal, generally assumes con- 

 stant forms in the various and manifold world of its 

 creation ; constant f"nns which conversely also reveal 

 those of the scientific faculty. In this way the 



