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80. (1895) The youth’s dictionary of mythology for boys and girls

The argument of the anthropologists is that while all nations have come from one parent-stock, as is claimed also by the philologists, yet the various peoples, in their primitive or savage state, have passed through a like low intellectual condition and growth. […] “With Ate by his side come hot from hell.” […] He is described as being blind and lame; blind because he so often injudiciously bestows his riches, and lame because fortunes come so slowly. […] “Wanton Zephyr, come away. […] From Zeus come all changes in the sky or the winds; he is the gatherer of the clouds which dispense fertilizing rain; and is also the thunderer and hurler of lightning.

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