MYTH AND SCIENCE 



By TITO VIGNOLI. 



12mo. Cloth, $l.SO. 



Contexts : The Ideas and Sources of Myth ; Animal Sensation and 

 Perception ; Human Sensation and Perception ; Statement of the Prob- 

 lem ; The Animal and Human Exercise of the Intellect in the Perception 

 of Things ; The Intrinsic Law of the Faculty of Apprehension ; The His- 

 torical Evolution of Myth and Science ; Of Dreams, Illusions, Normal and 

 Abnormal Hallucinations, Delirium, and Madness. 



" Ilis book is insfenious ; . . . liis theory of hovr science gradually dif- 

 ferentiated from and conquered myth is extremely well wrouglit out, and is 

 probably in essentials correct." — Saturday Review. 



" Tito Viijnoli's treatise is a valuable contribution to the public book- 

 table at the present moment, when the issues between faith and fact are so 

 much discussed. The author holds that the myth-making faculty is a con- 

 stant attendant of human progress, and that its action is manifest to-day in 

 the most highly cultivated peoples as well as in the most undeveloped. 

 The ditference is, that its activity in the former case is limited, or rather 

 neutralized, by the scientific faculties, and consequently is no longer allowed 

 to grow into legends and mythologies of the primitive pattern. The author 

 traces both myth and science to their common source m sensation and per- 

 ception, whicii he treats under the separate titles of ' animal ' and ' human.' 

 He makes clear the distinctive operations of perception and apprehension, 

 and traces, in a wide survey of history and human life, a most interesting 

 array of examples illustrating the evolution of myth and science." — New 

 York Home Journal. 



" The book is a strong one, and fiir more interesting to the general 

 reader than its title would indicate. The learning, the acuteness, the strong 

 reasoning power, and the scientific spirit of the author, command admira- 

 tion." — New York Christian Advocate. 



" An essay of such length as to merit a different title, and of sufficient 

 originality to merit more than common attention." — Chicago Times. 



" An attempt made, with much ability and no small measure of success, 

 to trace the origin and development of the myth. The author has pursued 

 his inquiry Avith much patience and ingenuity, and has produced a very 

 readable and luminous treatise." — Philadelphia North American. 



" A very interesting work, which, first published in Italy, created a 

 great deal of interest there, and will scarcely do less in this country." — 

 Mostoii Post. 



" This intensely interesting volume." — Albany (New York) I^ess. 



" It is a curious if not startling contribution both to psychology and to 

 the early history of man's development." — New York World. 



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