Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Myths Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Classic Myths of All Times for Young People
Our idea of the world is scientific because it is based on exact though by no means complete knowledge; the myth-makers' idea of the world was poetic because, with very incomplete knowledge, they could not imagine how anything could be done unless it was done as they did things. When the black clouds gather on a summer after noon and roll up the sky In great, terrifying masses, and the lightning ?ashes from them and the crash of the thun der fills the air and the rain beats down the crops, we feel as if we were in the laboratory of nature seeing a wonderful experiment made; when our ancestors saw the same spec tacle they were sure that a great dragon, breathing fire and roaring with anger, was ravaging the earth. As children to - day imagine that dolls are alive, that fairies dance in moonlit meadows on summer nights, or beasts or Indians make the sounds in the woods, so the people who made the myths filled the world with creatures unlike them selves, but with something of human intelligence, feeling and will.
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