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Excerpt from Semitic Influence in Hellenic Mythology: With Special Reference to the Recent Mythological Works of the Rt. Hon. Prof. F. Max Muller and Mr. Andrew Lang
I leave with confidence the following pages to the careful consideration of the reader, whether he chance to be critic, professional reviewer, scholar Classical or Oriental, anthropologist, folklorist, or 'honest man in the street who wishes to know something about these matters. 1 only ask him, whoever he may be, to weigh the questions well; and, without fear or favour, to give a true verdict according to the evidence.
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The leaders in England of two schools of mythology, based mainly in the one case on Aryan linguistics and in the other on anthropology, have recently published their revised, and probably final, conclusions. The time, therefore, seems oportune for a statement of the principles of a third School, which, for present purposes, I may style the Aryo-Semitic. Its members, whilst paying every respect to the system of Aryan philology, and fully recognizing the vast results that have sprung from the scientific application of Aryan linguistics, are nevertheless of opinion that the Aryanists have been unable to explain Hellenic mythology and Hellenic archaic history as a whole, because they have almost wholly ignored or denied the existence of that great mass of Semitic influence, which the Aryo-Semitic School hold is to be found throughout the length and breadth of Hellas. This latter School, moreover, is in entire sympathy with the researches of anthropology in general, and of folklore in particular.