exclude to this day all handicraftsmen from their tribes, and consider those who settle in their encampment as of an inferior caste, with whom they neither associate nor intermarry.’[240] Burton compares the Arabs of the desert in this respect with the North American Indians of a former generation: ‘Both recognising no other occupation but war and the chase, despise artificers and the effeminate people of cities, as the game-cock spurns the vulgar roosters of the poultry-yard.’[241] The same is true of the relation of the Bedâwî towards the townsmen in the Somali country.[242] Kant, who casually notices this remarkable trait of human ideas in a small tract, refers the peculiarity to the fact that not only the natural laziness, but also the vanity (a misunderstood freedom) of man cause those who have merely to live—whether profusely or parsimoniously—to consider themselves Magnates in comparison with those who have to labour in order to live.[243] Thus is explained the conception which forms the basis of the Story of the Fall, and at the same time everything else in the older strata of Hebrew mythology in which the sympathy of the myth-forming people is given to the shepherds, to the prejudice of personages introduced as agriculturists. And now we will consider the most prominent of the figures forming the elements of the ancient Hebrew mythology. ----- Footnote 120: See Sir Ch. Lyell, _The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man_ (4th ed. 1873), pp. 122 _et seq._ and 228. See also F. Lenormant’s essay, ‘L’Homme Fossile,’ in his _Les premiéres Civilisations_, I. 42. Footnote 121: _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, I. 407. Compare Hehn, _Culturpflanzen und Hausthiere_, 2nd edit., p. 103. Footnote 122: Bergmann, _Les peuples primitifs de la race de Jafète_, Colmar 1853, pp. 42, 45, 52, 53 apud Renan, _Hist. gén. d. langues sém._, p. 39. It is interesting that the ancients explained the hard-bested name of the Pelasgians from this point of view, making Πελασγοί equivalent to πελαργοί = storks (Strabo, V. 313; Falconer, ed. Kramer, V. 2, § 4). Compare Pott, _Etymologische Forschungen_, 1836, II. 527. Footnote 123: Blau in the _Zeitschrift d. D. M. G._, 1858, II. 589. Footnote 124: Waitz, _ibid._ II. 349. Footnote 125: Gesenius, _Thesaurus_, p. 410. a. Footnote 126: Munk, _Palästina_, Germ. transl. by Levy, Leipzig 1871, p. 190. Footnote 127: Ebers, _Aegypten und die Bücher Moses_, I. 70. Footnote 128: See the passage in Schrader, _Keilinschriften und das A. T._, p. 64. 20. Footnote 129: See Böttcher, _Ausführl. Lehrb. d. hebräischen Sprache_, edited by Mühlau, p. 7, _note_. Footnote 130: _Einleitung in das Studium der arab. Sprache_, p. 19. Footnote 131: Compare the Hottentot national name _Saan_, from _sâ_ ‘to rest,’ i.e. ‘the Settlers’ (F. Müller, _Allgemeine Ethnographie_, p. 75). Footnote 132: J.S. Müller, _Semiten, Chamiten und Japheiten_, &c, p. 257. Footnote 133: