The earliest of these works was Custom and Myth (1884); in Myth, Literature and Religion (2 vols., 1887, French trans., 1896) he explained the irrational elements of mythology as survivals from earlier savagery; in The Making of Religion (an idealization of savage animism) he maintained the existenc
idealization הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד