Conclusion
Early in its first chapter, this book evoked the Griechische Götternamen of Hermann Usener. The great Wilamowitz, thanking Usener, his quondam teacher, for the gift of the book, spoke out, after some emollient paragraphs, with a blend of hyper-protestantism and brutal frankness: “Gefühl ist alles,” he wrote, “Name ist Schall und Rauch,” “Feeling is everything, name is noise and smoke” (a common German expression for a thing of no substance)....
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