...the '• ' .^ uprise from another mood, that of playful and__erratic fancy. These two moods are /HV/7 conspicuous even in Christianity. The former, that...latter, they jealously guard their secret in sacred 1 The hypothesis that the conception was borrowed from European creeds will be discussed later. See,...

...that of playful and erratic fancy, is conspicuous in the buffoonery of Miracle Plays, in Ma/fehen, these burlesque popular tales about our Lord and the...later be shown that even some of the most backward savage* make a perhaps half-conscious distinction between their mythology and their religion. As to...

...popular tales about our Lord and the Apostles, and in the grotesque sculptures on sacred edifices. Trie two moods are present and in conflict through the whole religious history of the race. But how often the mood of playful fancy has been repressed and how one dimensional, how disembodied,...