| Show the two eternal types in fiction the novel of ro romance ace anil I 1 adventure ailt fin lias has had bad a long 0 aig lii w flory hirv and tho the elements of which it 1 compounded are arc recognizable cognisable re loll 1011 long 9 belore before they to ik k the form 0 of f fiction bevo figures appear anil and ilithe in the anthology m of every poetic aelic people ikle tile the hero and iid the wanderer the man mail who vilio achieves and the man who experiences tile the man mali teis life by superiority of soul or body and the man loan who master mastor it by completeness of knowledge it ft is interesting at and d pathetic pi thelic to lo ind find low how universally these two figures held the attention and the hearts of primitive men how low infinitely varied are then thell tasks their perils and their vicissitudes they near so ho man maa gui Eni edises ses es they bear so many name nabies chev travel so BO fir far and compkis so much experience that it is impossible in any interpretation to fo mythology to escape tile the conviction that they wells the dominant types in the thought of the myth makers and these earliest eai eat liest lakeit were not idle drearr dreamers ers antei baill ing themselves by endless manufacture of imaginary incidents conditions and persons they were on oil the contrary the observers the students the scientists of their period their endeavor was not to create a fiction but to explain the we id and themselves their observation was nias imported imperfect find they made rna do ludicrous mistakes of fact because they licked lacked both knowledge I 1 anu and training but they made iree use of the creati ve faculty and there is consequently A good deal more truth in their daring guesses than in many of those provis provisional onal explanations of nature aud ourselves ives which have been based too i exclusively on scrutiny of the obvious facca fact and indifference to the fact which is not les a fact because it is elusive hamilton W mabie in alo march forum t |
