. If ever this phrase fell
from my pen (in what connection I know not), it is as erroneous as the
position of St. Athanasius is honourable. Mr. Max Muller's ideas, in
various modifications, are doubtless still the most prevalent of any. The
anthropological method has hardly touched, I think, the learned
contributors to Roscher's excellent mythological Lexicon. Dr. Brinton,
whose American researches are so useful, seems decidedly to be a member
of the older school. While I do not exactly remember alluding to
Athanasius, I fully and freely withdraw the phrase. But there remain
questions of allies to be discussed.



Italian Critics


Mr. Max Muller asks, {22} 'What would Mr. Andrew Lang say if he read the
words of Signer Canizzaro, in his "Genesi ed Evoluzione del Mito" (1893),
"Lang has laid down his arms before his adversaries"?' Mr. Lang 'would
smile.' And what would Mr. Max Muller say if he read the words of
Professor Enrico Morselli, 'Lang gives no quarter to his adversaries,
who, for the rest, have long been reduced to silence'? {23} The Right
Hon. Professor also smiles, no doubt. We both smile. Solvuntur risu
tabulae.



A Dutch Defender


The question of the precise attitude of Professor Tiele, the accomplished
Gifford Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh (1897), is more important
and more difficult. His remarks were made in 1885, in an essay on the
Myth of Cronos, and were separately reprinted, in 1886, from the 'Revue
de l'Histoire des Religions,' which I shall cite. Where they refer to
myself they deal with Custom and Myth, not with Myth, Ritual, and
Religion (1887). It seems best to quote, ipsissimis verbis, Mr. Max
Muller's comments on Professor Tiele's remarks. He writes (i. viii.):

'Let us proceed next to Holland. Professor Tiele, who had actually been
claimed as an ally of the victorious army, declares:--"Je dois m'elever,
au nom de la science mythologique et de l'exactitude . . . centre une
methode qui ne fait que glisser sur des problem

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