![]() It does not consist of members of his own class, the privileged few who have had the benefits of a classical education and would have acquired such knowledge already or at least have the leisure and the means to acquire it. How is this knowledge to be attained? Bulfinch is very certain about his audience. But, perhaps because he had seen how fortunes may disappear overnight, never to be recovered, Bulfinch puts his faith in the kind of knowledge that can make us “happier and better.” This knowledge is the knowledge of literature, but we cannot understand the literature of our time without first understanding the mythology that literature so often alludes to. raise our station in society,” and there are, of course, books that will tell us how to get rich quickly and how to behave when we have amassed our pile. In his Preface, Bulfinch firmly sets his work within the emerging American genre of self-improvement: Other kinds of knowledge may “enlarge our possessions or. From Charles Martin's Introduction to Bulfinch's Mythology ![]()
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