"Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimerasdire stories of Celæno and the Harpiesmay reproduce themselves in the brain of superstitionbut they were there before. They are transcripts, typesthe archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us at all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury?