240 MYTH AND SCIENCE. 



not so persistently reappear. As soon as men are 

 rationally conscious of this entifying faculty and its 

 immediate effects on knowledge, the illusion -will 

 cease. Myth will be destroyed in every kind of facts 

 and phenomena, and science, no longer the uncon- 

 scious victim of this illusion, will advance with 

 caution and assurance. 



