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Freeman in the Saturday Review once put it, ' make few converts, and will be forgotten after at most a passing laugh from scientific men

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Freeman in the Saturday Review once put it, ' make few converts, and will be forgotten after at most a passing laugh from scientific men (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

Freeman, if that man's 'craze had been historical or philological' — and above all if it had to do with the science of man or of myth — 'he might have put forth notions quite as absurd as the notion t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attestation: Freeman in the Saturday Review once put it, ' make few converts, and will be forgotten after at most a passing laugh from scientific men (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

    "Freeman in the Saturday Review once put it, ' make few converts, and will be forgotten after at most a passing laugh from scientific men.'"

  • attestation: Freeman, if that man's 'craze had been historical or philological' — and above all if it had to do with the science of man or of myth — 'he might have put forth notions quite as absurd as the notion t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume II > Chapter XII: Race in Folklore and Myth)

    "Freeman, if that man's 'craze had been historical or philological' — and above all if it had to do with the science of man or of myth — 'he might have put forth notions quite as absurd as the notion that the earth is flat, and many people would not have been"