Myth and Science : An Essay

Myth and Science is an 1885 essay and part of the International Scientific Series. Vignoli describes myth as the, "most general and comprehensive nature, the spontaneous and imaginative form in which the human intelligence and human emotions conceive and represent themselves and things in general; it is the psychical and physical mode in which man projects himself into all those phenomena which he is able to apprehend and perceive." The Table of Contents includes On ideas and sources of myth, Animal sensation and perception, Human sensation and perception, The statement of the problem, The animal and human exercise of the intellect on the perception of things, Intrinsic law of the faculty of apprehension, The historical evolution of myth and science, and On dreams, illusions, normal and abnormal hallucinations, delirium, and madnessconclusion.