I3i MYTH AND SCIENCE. 



If I am not deluded by a prejudice in favour of my 

 own researches, this theory is a contribution to truth. 

 It is confirmed by the solidarity which it establishes 

 between the acts and laws of the psj'chical human 

 faculty, and that of animals which necessarily pre- 

 ceded it. No science can be constituted without such 

 solidarity; this great truth was felt and, alter their 

 manner, demonstrated by scholastic philosophers, or, 

 as it was afterwards scientifically expressed by the 

 genius of Leibnitz : Katura nonfacit saltum ! 



