All the old mythic cosmogonies are strangely suggestive and full of mystic import,that of Northern Odinism more than any other.

How curious, to trace in the grotesque mythic cosmogonies of India, Greece, and Scandinavia, modern geology, botany, chemistry, etc.,the vast and brutal giants of the Eddas and other old mythic scriptures being recognized as impersonations of the forces of Nature!

The most convinced rationalist is in its presence suddenly stricken with a strange and ancient vision, sees the immense sceptical cosmogonies of this age as dreams going the way of a thousand forgotten heresies, and believes for a moment that the dark sayings handed down through eighteen centuries may, indeed, contain in themselves the revolutions of which we have only begun to dream.

Mrs. Marvell's classification of the world into the visited and the unvisited was as obsolete as a mediaeval cosmogony.

Absurd enough: butas every man who is acquainted with old mythical cosmogonies must knowno more absurd than twenty similar guesses on record.

This would be a most appropriate figure of speech to describe a rich tropical landscape, "carpeted with flowers," as we say; and as the earth is, in primitive cosmogony, older than the sun, I suspect that this story of Quetzalcoatl and his sister refers to the sun sinking from heaven, seemingly, into the earth.

Science began with the adventures of free-thinking speculators, who revolted against religious cosmogonies and superstitions.

It is only in the last three or four thousand years, and through weak and tentative methods of expression, through clumsy cosmogonies and theologies, and with incalculable confusion and discoloration, that the human mind has felt its way towards its undying being in the race.

The most convinced rationalist is in its presence suddenly stricken with a strange and ancient vision, sees the immense sceptical cosmogonies of this age as dreams going the way of a thousand forgotten heresies, and believes for a moment that the dark sayings handed down through eighteen centuries may, indeed, contain in themselves the revolutions of which we have only begun to dream.