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.
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Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.Thomas Bulfinch
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Thomas Bulfinch
THE earliest inhabitants of Britain are supposed to have been a branch of that great family known in history by the designation of Celts.
Thomas Bulfinch
Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
Thomas Bulfinch
The Welsh language is one of the oldest in Europe. It possesses poems the origin of which is referred with probability to the sixth century.
Thomas Bulfinch
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