Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Myth

in general, a fiction framed unconsciously, not a willful falsehood. MYTH, in general, a fiction framed Such myths arose most copiously cop in the infancy of nations, but they do so yet, especially among young people or the uneducated, there being the closest analogy between the mind of early man and ogy between the mind of early man and that of a child or of an untaught person. the scientific study of myths. In the former sense see the names of the vari-

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