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The Folk-lore of Plants
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T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
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Similarly
we
can
understand
the
veneration
bestowed
on
the
forest
tree
from
associations
of
this
kind.
Consequently,
as
it
has
been
remarked,[13]
"At
a
time
when
rude
beginnings
were
all
that
were
of
the
builder's
art,
the
human
mind
must
have
been
roused
to
a
higher
devotion
by
the
sight
of
lofty
trees
under
an
open
sky,
than
it
could
feel
inside
the
stunted
structures
reared
by
unskilled
hands.
When
long
afterwards
the
architecture
peculiar
to
the
Teutonic
reached
its
perfection,
did
it
not
in
its
boldest
creations
still
aim
at
reproducing
the
soaring
trees
of
the
forest?
Would
not
the
abortion
of
miserably
carved
or
chiselled
images
lag
far
behind
the
form
of
the
god
which
the
youthful
imagination
of
antiquity
pictured
to
itself
throned
on
the
bowery
summit
of
a
sacred
tree."
It
has
been
asked
whether
the
idea
of
the
Yggdrasil
and
the
tree-descent
may
not
be
connected
with
the
"tree
of
life"
of
Genesis.
Without,
however,
entering
into
a
discussion
on
this
complex
point,
it
is
worthy
of
note
that
in
several
of
the
primitive
mythologies
we
find
distinct
counterparts
of
the
biblical
account
of
the
tree
of
life;
and
it
seems
quite
possible
that
these
corrupt
forms
of
the
Mosaic
history
of
creation
may,
in
a
measure,
have
suggested
the
conception
of
the
world
tree,
and
the
descent
of
mankind
from
a
tree.
On
this
subject
the
late
Mr.
R.J.
King[14]
has
given
us
the
following
interesting
remarks
in
his
paper
on
"Sacred
Trees
and
Flowers":
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