Myth and Science.

The article presents information on the book "Myth and Science," by Tito Vignoli. Myth, according to the peculiar sense in which it is used in this volume, begins in animism, and culminates in the "entification of sensations and ideas." A number of facts are collected to show that animals are animistic, differing, however, from man only in the fact that, with the former, the illusions do not outlast the sensations, while in the latter they occasion fetishes, which are gradually organized into mythologies and theologies, only to be subtilized into more subjective myths. The great fault of this book is its size.