Excerpt from Myth: A SymposiumIn 1856 Max Miiller published a long essay on Comparative Mythology which reoriented all previous thinking on the origin of myths. The treatise astonished and delighted philologists, classicists, and literary scholars, John Fiske recalls the excite ment that swept him on first reading the noble essay, and Cox and Lang equally pay it tribute.8 Only ten years earlier William Thorns had devised the term folk-lore.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.