The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 3, Myths and Languages

CHAPTER I.

SPEECH AND SPECULATION.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MAN AND BRUTES -- MIND LANGUAGE AND SOUL-LANGUAGE -- ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE: A GIFT OF THE CREATOR, A HUMAN INVENTION, OR AN EVOLUTION -- NATURE AND VALUE OF MYTH -- ORIGIN OF MYTH: THE DIVINE IDEA, A FICTION OF SORCERY, THE CREATION OF A DESIGNING PRIESTHOOD -- ORIGIN OF WORSHIP, OF PRAYER, OF SACRIFICE -- FETICHISM AND THE OR...