bb MYTH AND SCIENCE. 



temporally and logically, and external idols were 

 formed before those which were internal and peculiar 

 to himself.* 



It is true that man unconsciously, that is, without 

 deliberation, not only animates external things and 

 their specific types, but he also, by an exercise of 

 memory, animates the psychical image of these 

 special perceptions. If, for example, the primitive 

 man personifies a stream of water which he has seen 

 to issue from a fissure of the rocks, and ascribes to 

 it voluntary and intentional motion, he also animates 

 the image which reappears in his sphere of thought, 



: The Hawa'ians, for example, liave only one term for love, friend- 

 ship, esteem, gratitude, benevolence, etc. aloha; while they have 

 distinct words for dili'ereut degrees in a single natural phenomenon. 

 Thus ancane, gentle breeze; ////."/, wind; pahi, the act of breathing 

 through the mouth; hano, breathing through the nose. See Hub's 

 Poll/ in "In n I>ift!i,)inrij. All peoples have slowly attained to typical 

 ideas, and many are even now in process of formation. Thus, the Finn?, 

 Lapps, Tartars, and Mongols, have no generic words for rir, ,-. although 

 <-yen the smallest streams have their names. They have not a word to 

 express fingers in general, but special words for thumb, fore-finger, etc. 

 They have no word for tree, but special words for pine, birch, ash, etc. 

 In the Finn language, the word first used for thinuli was afterwards 

 applied to fingers generally, and the special word for the bay in which 

 they lived came to be used for all bays. See Castren, Vorlesunrjun 

 ill: i- r;,ni!flii' Jr//tli<i}i><jie. This original confusion in the definition 

 of scientific ideas, and the successive alternations by which they were 

 re-cast, may be gathered from the analysis of language, and from facts 

 which still occur among uncultured and ignorant people. When the 

 inhabitants of Mallculo saw dogs for the first time, they called them 

 brooaSjOT pigs. The inhabitants of Tauna also call the dogs imported 

 thithc r lui'jii, or pigs. When the inhabit mts of a small island in the 

 Ab-diU-rraneau saw oxen for the first time, they called them horned 

 asses. 



