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Excerpt from Towards a Mythology: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats The Muses, Apollo, Mercury, Pallas, Venus, and other such deities, represent to us nothing other than the powers of God, to Whom the first men gave several names for the diverse effects of the incomparable Majesty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.