nly two or three tribes separated from it, while the Greek islands
swim among the waves with their customs and institutions. He says that the
ancients remarked the greater activity, mutability, and variety in the
life of maritime nations.

[205] Mr. Buckle is almost the only marked exception. He nowhere
recognizes the doctrine of race.

[206] The ox is, in Sanskrit _go_ or _gaus_, in Latin _bos_, in Greek
[Greek: bous].

The horse is, in Sanskrit _acva_, in Zend _acpa_, in Greek [Greek:
hippos], in Latin _equus_.

The sheep is, in Sanskrit _avis_, in Latin _ovis_, in Greek [Greek: ois].

The goose is, in Sanskrit _hansa_, in Latin _anser_, in Old German _kans_,
in Greek [Greek: chaen].

House is, in Sanskrit _dama_, in Latin _domus_, in Greek [Greek: domos].
Door is, in Sanskrit _dvar_ or _duara_, in Greek [Greek: thura], in Irish
_doras_.

Boat or ship is, in Sanskrit _naus_, in Latin _navis_, in Greek [Greek:
naus]. Oar is, in Sanskrit _aritram_, in Greek [Greek: eretmos] in
Latin _remus_.

The Greeks distinguished themselves from the Barbarians as a grain-eating
race. Barbarians ate acorns.

[207] Herod., I. 56, 57, 146; II. 51, 171; IV. 145; V. 26; VI. 137; VII.
94; VIII. 44, 73.

[208] Maury, Histoire des Religions de la Grece Antique, Chap. I. p. 5. He
mentions several Pelasgic words which seem to be identical with old
Italian or Etruscan names.

[209] Mueller, Dorians, Introduction, Sec. 10.

[210] Griechische Gotterlehre, Einleitung, Sec. 6.

[211] See Mueller, Dorians.

[212] Symbolik und Mythologie, Th. III., Heft 1, chap. 5, Sec. 1.

[213] Herod. II. 50 _et seq_.

[214] Among the ancients [Greek: Onoma] often had this force. It denoted
personality. The meaning, therefore, of Herodotus is that the Egyptians
taught the Greeks to give their deities proper names, instead of common
names. A proper name is the sign of personality.

[215] Maury, Religions de la Grece, III. 263.

[216] Diod. Sic., I. 92-96.

[217] Gerhard, Griechische Mythologie, Sec. 50, Vol. 1.

[218] Mr. Grote (History of Greece, Part I. Chap. 1.) maintains that
Heaven, Night, Sleep, and Dream "are Persons, just as much as Zeus and
Apollo." I confess that I can hardly understand his meaning. The first
have neither personal qualities, personal life, personal history, nor
personal experience; they appear only as vast abstractions, and so
disappear again.

[219] Keats, in his Hyperion, is the only modern poet who has caugh