ABSTRACT
In this sense, the contrast between the naturalists and the anthro pologists is not particularly profound. Even Max Muller locates the ori gins of mythology in faulty logic and examines folklore with an eye not to poetic expression of myth but to simple survival. Yet both schools placed the study of mythology on a solid scientific footing. This created the unfortunate impression that science now ‘understood’ myth, and so myth was dethroned from the privileged position and esteem that the Romantics had accorded it.
