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Article: Age Of Fable Or Beauties Of Mythology: Preface
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Preface
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which
helps
to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then
Mythology
has no claim to the appellation. But if that which tends to make
us happier
and better can be called useful, then we claim that epithet for our
subject.
For Mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one
of the
best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature
of our
own language cannot be understood and appreciated. When Byron calls
Rome
"the Niobe of nations," or says of Venice, "She looks a Sea-Cybele ...
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