Quotes About Andrew Lang

Shockingly, it turned out to be Andrew Lang, perhaps Tylor's most vociferous defender, to call the world's attention to the facts that (1) certain people on the simplest level of material culture had some of the highest moral standards found anywhere in the world, and that (2) those standards were based on their belief in a single God who created them, watched over them, gave them his laws, and enforced them.

All this was too much for Andrew Lang (1844–1912), a folklorist and disciple of E. B. Tylor, the best-known advocate of the evolution of religion. (We shall focus more on both Lang and Tylor later.) There are two aspects to Lang's reaction to Müller: the weakness of the philological method and the claim that an evolutionary theory can give a better explanation of the content of mythology than philology.

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk-lore.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than for illumination.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination.

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.

Letters from the first were planned to guide us into Fairy Land.

The indiscriminate aligning of narrative elements to natural phenomena led to the eventual discrediting of comparative mythology, not least when Andrew Lang, a critic of Max Müller, demonstrated that Müller himself was a solar myth.

Indeed, one turns over Miss Dickinson's book with a puzzled feeling that there was poetry in her subconscious, but that it never became explicit.