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ever, although definite, assumed anthropomorphic 

 forms, like those which were specific. The cause 

 of this identity of construction is to be found in the 

 influence exerted upon them by the earlier myths. 

 By a necessary equilibrium, and spontaneous sym- 

 metry of mental creations, these were also modified 

 by the gradual formation of contemporary images. 

 In this way the solar myths were elaborated and 

 developed among the Aryan peoples and other races; 

 their aspects became much more anthropomorphic 

 and anthropopathic in proportion as the typical 

 myths assumed a human form. 



The primitive myths of the secondary form were 

 at first grouped round physical and external pheno- 

 mena, because these were originally the most obvious 

 to man. But the specific moral types had their 

 origin by reaction, and by a more strictly intellectual 

 process, and these were personified in the same way, 

 although in this second stage they were not so 

 numerous. Yet their appearance and creation were 

 inevitable, since the same faculty and classifying 

 process had to be carried out in the intellectual and 

 moral order as in that which was extrinsic and cosmic ; 

 since the mind and consciousness and intrinsic faculty 

 of the intelligence are identical. And when once 

 these ultimate types were formed, the same neces- 

 sity impelled their animation and personification in 

 anthropomorphic images. Of this we have abundant 

 instances in all the traditions of nearly all the peoples 

 of the world. 



