[184] I am the more willing to take this as my illustration of myth because, strangely enough, Mr. MacCulloch has omitted it from the examples he uses in his _Childhood of Fiction_. [185] _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, i. 166. [186] Mr. Jeremiah Curtin has collected and published the _Creation Myths of Primitive America_ (London, 1899), and his introduction is a specially valuable study of the subject. I printed the Fijian myth from Williams' _Fiji and Fijians_, i. 204, and the Kumis myth from Lewin's _Wild Races of South-east India_, 225-6, in my _Handbook of Folklore_, 137-139, and Mr. Lang, in cap. vi. of his _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_ deals with a sufficient number of examples. _Cf._ also Tylor, _Primitive Culture_, cap. ix. [187] Grey, _Polynesian Mythology_, 1-15. I have only summarised the full legend on the lines adopted by Dr. Tylor. [188] On the Kronos myth consult Farnell, _Cults of the Greek States_, i. 23-31, who gives an admirable summary of the evidence as it at present stands; Harrison and Verrall, _Mythology and Monuments of Anc. Athens_, 192; Lang, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, i. 295-323. [189] Mr. Crawley discovered this story in Mr. Bain's _A Digit of the Moon_, 13-15, and printed it in his _Mystic Rose_, 33-34. [190] "The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature," and "Mr. Gladstone and Genesis," in _Science and Hebrew Tradition_, cap. iv. and v. [191] _Adonis, Attis and Osiris_, 4, 25. Mr. Jevons, too, lays stress upon "the source of errors in religion" as human reason gone astray, _Introd. to Hist. of Religion_, 463. [192] Mr. Jevons practically arrives at this conclusion from a different standpoint. "Beliefs," he says, "are about facts, are statements about facts, statements that certain facts will be found to occur in a certain way or be of a certain kind" (_Introd. to Hist. of Religion_, 402). Mr. Curtin, _Creation Myths of Primitive America_ (p. xx), confirms the view I take. [193] Orpen, _Cape Monthly Magazine_. Quoted in Lang's _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, i. 71.