# Scenes and Portraits Author: Manning, Frederic, 1882-1935 Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60537 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Scenes+and+Portraits+Manning&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary It is a necessity of the human mind to give everything a name, thus recognising a difference between one thing and another, and recording it. Science, which is the highest development of this necessity, recognises, and records systematically, all the facts of experience, distinguishing one from another, by the most minute analysis. The Maoris even go so far as bestow on their greenstone clubs, on their _tikis_, and on almost every separate article, a distinct name, as if recognising an individuality, much as the old myth-makers spoke of the sword Excalibur; but the average man is usually very loose in his application of terms. Renan in his preface to "Dialogues Philosophiques" writes: "La... ## Chapters - [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/7/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/3/index.md) - [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/9/index.md) - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/8/index.md) - [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/5/index.md) - [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/6/index.md) - [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/10/index.md) - [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/11/index.md) - [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/4/index.md) - [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/13/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/12/index.md) - [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/scenes-and-portraits-60537/chapters/14/index.md)