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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books The Birth of Science RELATED QUOTES: [^1]: It is through wonder that men begin to philosophize. Aristotle [^2]: The world of primitive peoples was a dynamic, animated, living reality in which natural phenomena are considered to be manifestations or embodiments of a kind of spiritual power. An I‑thou attitude toward the world as opposed to an I‑it attitude. Schlagel p.

49 [^3]: Primitive humans seek to influence the threatening demons and spirits and demigods by imitating or propitiating them. This repeated attempt at magic gives birth to ritual, to which myth is closely related. Freund p. 23 [^4]: Frazer shares Lang's belief that myth began as a form of primitive science, but goes beyond that ‑‑ some myths are belated rather than initial explanations, not of natural objects or processes, but of long honored magical rites. Freund p.

30 [^5]: The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science. The difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of the things to which it is applied. C. Levi‑Strauss, Schlagel p. 37 [^6]: Myths are not the work of imagination, but the result of interpreted observation. In them a great store of ancient and direct experience is laid up. They are fossil history: actual happenings which lie far beyond the reach of history proper.

Hans Bellamy, Freund p. 25 [^7]: Even myths, therefore, are not just imaginative stories of the origin of the world created out of the visions and legends of shamans, seer‑poets, or prophets. Instead, they represent a feat of intellectual abstraction in which certain prominent empirical occurrences are rendered stable and intelligible by being fitted into the only available theoretical frameworks of the time ‑‑ a story as to "how things came to pass." Schlagel p.

64 [^8]: The striking originality of Thales consists in discarding the personifications of natural phenomena, in rejecting the anthropomorphic explanations as found in the Theogony, and in abstracting from the content of experience a natural observable element as the basic constituent or principle of things. Schlagel p.

69 [^9]: Egyptian and Mesopotamian technical knowledge contained no hint of an attempt to explain all the phenomena of the universe on the basis of an intelligible system of natural law. Technical achievement in itself is not proof of the power of conscious abstraction. Farrington p.