112 MYTH AND SCIENCE. 



could it be otherwise. Although the scientific idea 

 or notion of objective reality in itself could not be 

 grasped by simple animal intelligence, the impression 

 of the thing perceived was necessarily that of a sub- 

 jectivity resembling that of the observer, not indeed 

 in outward form and figure but in intrinsic power, 

 whatever might be the extrinsic form and figure of the 

 object or phenomenon. 



The original condition of animals, and of man him- 

 self in his primordial life and consciousness, is and 

 was the intrinsic personification of the things per- 

 ceived : from this source the human intellect slowly 

 and with difficulty attained to science, by virtue of 

 that psychical reduplication which has been so often 

 mentioned. 



The motive or subject of myth may be external, 

 cosmic, or it may be internal, intellectual, and moral, 

 but in each case the cause and faculty at work are 

 the same. Just as the primary condition of obser- 

 vation, and consequently the motive principle of 

 science, consists in the primitive exercise of the in- 

 telligence, which leads to empirical and rational 

 knowledge, so myth and science have a common 

 origin in the immediate transformation of natural 

 objects and phenomena into living subjects, and they 

 flow from the same deep source. The object in view 

 is different, but their constructive faculty is the same, 

 and they are, up to a certain point in their long historic 

 course, evolved in the same way. Science, therefore, 



