CHAPTEE YEII. 



OF DREAMS, ILLUSIONS, NORMAL AND ABNORMAL HALLU- 

 CINATIONS, DELIRIUM, AND MADNESS CONCLUSION. 



IN the preceding chapters, I have shown, as I 

 believe, the genesis of myth, the fundamental faculty 

 in which it necessarily originates, and its evolution 

 in man, particularly in the Aryan and Semitic 

 races. We have seen that the primitive and universal 

 fact consists in the immediate and spontaneous enti- 

 fication of natural phenomena and of the ideas them- 

 selves ; and we have resolved this fact into its 

 elements, from which all the generating sources of 

 myth issue, that is, from the immediate effects of the 

 perception. Putting man out of the question, we 

 ascertained that the same innate necessity was 

 common to the animal kingdom. 



In order to complete the theory, we must con- 

 sider some other facts and psychical phenomena, both 

 normal and abnormal, so as to ascertain whether 

 these are not due to the same cause, as far as respects 

 their intrinsic forms ; namely, the belief in the reality 



