A science in its early stages, while the validity of its working laws in
application to essential cases is still undetermined, must, of course,
expect 'bickerings.' But philological mythologists are actually trying
to base one science, Mythology, on the still shifting and sandy
foundations of another science, Phonetics. The philologists are
quarrelling about their 'equations,' and about the application of their
phonetic laws to mythical proper names. On the basis of this shaking
soil, they propose to build _another_ science, Mythology! Then, pleased
with the scientific exactitude of their evidence, they object to the
laxity of ours.