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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: To pursue this line of inquiry through the countless nymphs
and dryads and nixies of the higher nature-worship up to the
Olympian divinities of classic polytheism, would be to enter
upon the history of religious belief, and in so doing to lose
sight of our present purpose, which has merely been to show by
what mental process the myth-maker can speak of natural
objects in language which implies that they are animated
persons. Brief as our account of this process has been, I
believe that enough has been said, not only to reveal the
inadequacy of purely philological solutions (like those
contained in Max Muller's famous Essay) to explain the growth
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