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In fact, in this stage man does not merely infuse 

 his spiritual essence into these types, but likewise 

 his corporeal form, whence we have the true, human 

 image of myth. This may be seen in the various 

 primitive Olynipuses of all historic races as well as ^ 

 among savage peoples, only varying in the splendour of 

 their imagery. They consist in the transformation of 

 the earlier fetish into an intelligent, corporeal person, 

 and result from the formation and personification of 

 types. 



Beginning with the mysterious conception of some 

 particular spring as a malignant or beneficent fetish 

 which, although personified, still retains its concrete 

 form, the classifying action of the intelligence gradu- 

 ally constructs, from its points of resemblance to 

 other springs, a generic type which includes them iX 

 all. This typical conception, personified in its turn, 

 next represents a unique power, of which all the 

 individual and accidental springs are only manifes- 

 tations. Thus it is clear that man, in the personifi- 

 cation of this type or specific conception, is no longer 

 bound to the actual form of the special object which 

 first represented it, but he may be said to mould 

 a more indefinite and plastic substance into which he 

 can with spontaneous or facile art incarnate his whole 

 person. Hence this substance will assume an anthro- 

 pomorphic form, and will issue, not in a mysterious 

 being of extrinsic and indefinite form, but in a person 

 with human features, obvious to human senses. 



