Anthropoid foxes and raccoons, wholly lacking in those engaging qualities that beget love, and through love remembrance, take their place.

Even Benten, the naturalized Venus, who, like her Hellenic sister, is said to have risen from the sea, is a person quite incapable of inspiring a reckless infatuation.
Utterly unlike was this pantheon to the pantheon of the Greeks, the personifying tendency of whose Aryan mind was forever peopling nature with half-human inhabitants.

Under its quickening fancy the very clods grew sentient.

Dumb earth awoke at the call of its desire, and the beings its own poesy had begotten made merry companionship for man.

Then a change crept over the face of things.