Ragnarok : the age of fire and gravel

PART II. The Legends.

CHAPTER I. THE NATURE OF UYTHS.

Ix a primitive people the mind of one generation precisely repeats the minds of all former generations; the construction of the intellectual nature varies no more, from age to age, than the form of the body or the color of the skin ; the generations feel the same emotions, and think the same thoughts, and use the same expressions, And this is to be expected, for the brain is as much a part of the inheritable, material organization as the color of the eyes or the shape of the nose.

The minds of men move automatically : no man thinks because he intends to think ; he thinks, as he hungers and thirsts, under a great pamal necessity ; his thoughts come out from the inner depths of his being as the flower is developed by forces rising through the roots of the plant.

The female bird says to herself, “The time is propitious, and now, of my own free will, and under the operation of my individual judgment, I will lay a nestful of eggs and hatch a brood of children.” But it is unconscious that it is moved by a physical necessity, which has POTS ate all its ancestors from the beginning of time,