ies totems in Melanesia. Is Samoa in Melanesia, par
exemple? {143a} Our author (i. 206) says that 'Dr. Codrington will have
no totems in his islands.' But Samoa is not one of the doctor's
fortunate isles. For Samoa I refer, not to Dr. Codrington, but to Mr.
Turner. {143b} In Samoa the 'clans' revere each its own sacred animals,
'but combine with it the belief that the spiritual deity reveals itself
in each separate animal.' {143c} I expressly contrast the Samoan creed
with 'pure totemism.' {143d}

So much for our author's success in stating and criticising my ideas. If
he pleases, I will not speak of Samoan totems, but of Samoan sacred
animals. It is better and more exact.



The View of Classical Scholars


They (ii. 735) begin by pointing out Artemis's connection with Apollo and
the moon. So do I! 'If Apollo soon disengages himself from the sun . .
. Artemis retains as few traces of any connection with the moon.' {143e}
'If Apollo was of solar origin,' asks the author (ii. 735), 'what could
his sister Artemis have been, from the very beginning, if not some
goddess connected with the moon?' Very likely; quis negavit? Then our
author, like myself (loc. cit.), dilates on Artemis as 'sister of
Apollo.' 'Her chapels,' I say, 'are in the wild wood; she is the abbess
of the forest nymphs,' 'chaste and fair, the maiden of the precise life.'
How odd! The classical scholar and I both say the same things; and I add
a sonnet to Artemis in this aspect, rendered by me from the Hippolytus of
Euripides. Could a classical scholar do more? Our author then says that
the Greek sportsman 'surprised the beasts in their lairs' by night. Not
very sportsmanlike! I don't find it in Homer or in Xenophon. Oh for
exact references! The moon, the nocturnal sportswoman, is Artemis: here
we have also the authority of Theodore de Banville (Diane court dans la
noire foret). And the nocturnal hunt is Dian's; so she is protectress of
the chase. Exactly what I said! {144a}

All this being

Martha Finley (1828 - 1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. The daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley, she was born on April 26th, 1828 in Chillicothe, Ohio. Finley wrote many of her books under the psodonym Martha Farquharson. She died in 1909 in Elkton, Maryland, where she moved in 1876.

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