Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"

Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true. . . . Myth has two main functions. The first is to answer the sort of awkward questions that children ask, such as: 'Who made the world? How will it end? Who was the first man? Where do souls go after death?'. . . . The second function of myth is to justify an existing social system and account for traditional rites and customs.