"For the development of myth, which is in itself always a human personification of natural objects and phenomena in some form or other, the first and necessary foundation consists, as we have abundantly shown, in the conscious and deliberate vivification of objects by the perception and apprehension of animals. And since this is a condition of animal perception, it is also the foundation of all human life, and of the spontaneous and innate exercise of the intelligence. In fact, man, by a two-fold process, raises above his animal nature a world of images, ideas, and conceptions from the types he has formed of various phenomena, and his attitude towards this internal world does not differ from his attitude towards that which is external. He personifies the images, ideas, and conceptions, by transforming them into living subjects, just as he had originally personified cosmic objects and phenomena. * * * * * "This was the source of primitive, confused, and inorganic fetishism among all peoples; namely, that they ascribed intentional and conscious life to a host of natural objects and phenomena. Hence came the fears, the adoration, the guardianship of, or abhorrence for, some given species of stones, plants, animals, some strange forms or unusual natural object. The subsequent adoration of idols and images, all sorts of talismans, the virtue of relics, dreams, incantations and exorcisms, had the same origin, and were all due to this primitive genesis of the fetish. the internal duplication of the external animation and personification of objects." ANGLO-SAXON HELMET. The remains of a very fine example of the Anglo-Saxon helmet referred to in chapter ii., was found by the late Mr. Bateman, in 1848, at Benty Grange, in Derbyshire. He says--"It was our good fortune to open a barrow which afforded a more instructive collection of relics than has ever been discovered in the country, and which are not surpassed in interest by any remains hitherto recovered from any Anglo-Saxon burial place in the kingdom." Amongst these remains was the head-piece referred to. After describing the details of its structure, he adds--"On the crown of the helmet is an elliptical bronze plate supporting the figure of an animal carved in iron, with bronze eyes, now much corroded, but perfectly distinct as the representation of a hog." INDEX. A. Abram, 138, 143 Achilleus, 39, 46, 53 Acquitania, 41 Adam's Peak, 117 Adils, 175, et seq. Agamemnon, 40 Agricola, Julius, 4 Agrimensores, 87 Aix-la-Chapelle, 40 Albinus, St., 20 Alexander, 43, 44 Alfgeirr, 175 et seq. 194 Allectus, 192 Alfred the Great, 44, 63, 77, 81, 168, 173, 175, 194 Ancient Monuments, 44 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 7, 27, 32, 35, 61, 130, 131, 134, 143, 165, 167, 170, 179, 204 Aneurin, 19, 114 Anlaf, 170, et seq. Annales Cambria, 195 Anselm, 45 Anthony, St., 116 Arbury, 85 Arminius or Herman, 75 Armorica (Brittany), 18, 20, 38