[41] _Cf._ Johnson, W., _Byways in British Archæology_.
[42] _The Cromlechs of Anglesey and Carnarvonshire._
[44] Windle, Sir B. C. A., _Life in Early Britain_, p. 135.
[45] Johnston, Rev. James B., _The Place-names of England and Wales_, 1915, p. 321. The Horse-lie-down theory is enunciated by Sir Walter Besant.
[46] Preface to _The Place-names of Oxfordshire_.
[48] _Cf._ Bonwick, J., _Irish Druids_, p. 278.
[49] Virchow, intro. to Schliemann, _Ilios_ XII.
[51] Clodd, Ed., _The Story of Primitive Man_, 9, 18.
[52] Sweet, H., _The History of Language_, p. vi.
[53] _The Principles of Comparative Philology._
[54] Even after Troy had been discovered by Schliemann, Max Müller maintained his belief that the Siege of Troy was a Sun and Dawn myth.
[55] _Alphana_ vient d'_equus_, sans doute, Mais il faut avouer aussi Qu'en venant de là jusqu'ici Il a bien changé sur la route.
[56] Westropp, T. J., _Proc. R. Irish Acad._, xxxiv., C., 8, p. 159.
[59] Such obvious concoctions of the study as _exsufflicate_, _deracinate_, _incarnadine_, etc., never strike root or survive.
[60] Petrie, W. M. F., _The Formation of the Alphabet_, p. 3.
[61] _A Book of the Beginnings_, 1, p. 136.
[62] _Lectures on the English Language_, 1862, p. 16.
[64] The _Edin_ of the prehistoric British _Dun edin_, now Edinburgh, has been calmly misappropriated to a supposed _Edwin_.
[66] _Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft._
[67] Johnson, W., _Byways in British Archæology_, p. 304.
[68] Cloudesley Brereton, in _The Quest_.
[71] This dictum would have cheered the heart of Tertullian, who maintained that God could never forgive an actor because Christ said: _No man by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature_; a statement which the actor impiously falsified by wearing high heeled boots. Commenting upon _The Lost Language of Symbolism_, _The Expository Times_ very courteously observed: "To the reader of the Bible its worth is more than to all others, for the Bible is full of symbols and we have lost their language. We are very prosaic. The writers of the Old Testament and of the New were very imaginative. Between us there is a gulf fixed of which we are aware only in unquiet moments."
[72] "There must have been a time when a simple instinct for poetry was possessed by all nations as it still is by uncivilised races and children. Among European nations this instinct appears to be dead for ever. We can name neither a mountain nor a flower."--Prof. Weekley, _Romance of Words_. "Who did first name the flowers? Who first gave them, not their Latin titles, but the old, familiar, fanciful, poetic, rustic ones, that run so curiously alike in all the vulgar tongues? Who first called the lilies of the valley the Madonna's tears? the wild blue hyacinth, St. Dorothy's flower? the starry passiflora, the Passion of Christ; who named them all first, in the old days that are forgotten? All the poets that ever the world has known might have been summoned together for the baptism of the flowers, and have failed to name them half so well as popular tradition has done long ago in the dim lost ages, with names that still make all the world akin."--Anon.