Kinds of Myth. — If we classify these stories according to the reason of their existence, we observe that they are of two kinds: explanatory and æsthetic. […] This theory leaves us no wiser than we were. […] But we find myths containing such incidents in all these countries. […] This goddess became, as we have already seen, the mother of Apollo and Diana. […] For ever cruelly suffer we gods by one another’s devices, in showing men grace.