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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Inman (Trubner, 1874), p. 55.
[2] Zoological Mythology, vol. ii, pp. 410 sq.
Thus we see the natural-magic tendency of the human
mind asserting itself. To some of us indeed this tendency
is even greater in the case of the Snake than in that of the
Tree. W. H. Hudson, in Far Away and Long Ago, speaks
of "that sense of something supernatural in the serpent, which
appears to have been universal among peoples in a primitive
state of culture, and still survives in some barbarous
or semi-barbarous countries." The fascination of
the Snake--the fascination of its mysteriously gliding movement,
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