etymology. Wodan was originally the storm-spirit or animating genius of the wind, answering in many respects to the Greek Hermes and the Vedic Sarameyas. See my Myths and Myth-makers, 19, 20, 32, 35, 67, 124, 204; and cf. Mackay, Religious Development of the Greeks and Hebrews, i. 260-273. REFERENCES. M. M., Myths and Myth-makers, 1872; C. P., Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy, 1874; U. W., The Unseen World, 1876; D., Darwinism and Other Essays, 1879; E. E., Excursions of an Evolutionist, 1884; D. M., The Destiny of Man, 1884; A. P. I., American Political Ideas, 1885. [1] E. E. 56-77. [2] C. P. i. 230. [3] C. P. i. 157, 177-179. [4] M. M. 18-21, _et passim_. [5] M. M. 220. [6] M. M. 232. [7] M. M. 236; E. E. 251. [8] A. P. I. 78, 81. [9] U. W. 10. [10] D. M. 104-107. [11] E. E. 262. [12] M. M. 236. [13] C. P. ii. 383. [14] U. W. 118. [15] D. 5-8; C. P. ii. 283. [16, 17] C. P. ii. 428. [18] C. P. i. 183; ii. 449. [19] M. M. 122. [20] C. P. ii. 405. [21] C. P. ii. 381-410. [22] E. E. 327-336. [23] C. P. ii. 449. [24] D. M. 113; cf. C. P. ii. 406. [25] D. 103. [26] D. M. 77-95; A. P. I. 101-152. IMPORTANT BOOKS BY JOHN FISKE. =OUTLINES OF COSMIC PHILOSOPHY=, based on the Doctrine of Evolution. With Criticisms on the Positive Philosophy. 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 465, 523, $6.00. Mr. DARWIN, after reading this work, wrote as follows to Mr. Fiske:-- "You must allow me to thank you for the very great interest with which I have at last slowly read the whole of your work.... I never in my life read so lucid an expositor (and therefore thinker) as you are; and I think that I understand nearly the whole, though perhaps less clearly about cosmic theism and causation than other parts. It is hopeless to attempt out of so much to specify what has interested me most, and probably you would not care to hear. It pleased me to find that here and there I had arrived, from my own crude thoughts, at some of the same conclusions with you, though I could seldom or never have given my reasons for such conclusions." This work of Mr. Fiske's may be not unfairly designated the most important contribution yet made by America to philosophical literature.... His theory of the influence of prolonged infancy upon social development (Part II., chap. xxii.) entitles Mr. Fiske's work to be considered a distinctly important contribution to the theory of the origin of species, and of the origin of man in particular.--_Academy_ (London). His most important suggestion, that of the influence of the long period of feeble adolescence upon man's social development, is, we think, a permanent contribution to the development theory.--_Nation_ (New York).