Studies in Popular Poetry (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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First and chiefest of the causes which transform to myths the facts of everyday experience is the belief in the animation of all nature, which in its highest form becomes personification.' Nature and man act and react upon each other.

Nature acts upon man - At the very first man probably did not love nature in any wide sense. He came, it may be, to love that corner of it which was the most familiar to him, that sheltered abiding-place which hid him oftenest from the rigor of the heat or of the cold; but his first feeling for external nature was certainly fear. Before he noticed in conscious fashion the odor of the flower, he shrank before the blast of the tempest, the blare of the thunder, the blinding lightning, the blackness of night. These demonic forces h'e clad with living shapes, and sacrificed and prayed to them.

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