StNicholas . as for October, 1879. And almost all ofthese, if traced to their sources, lead us back tothat dim past out of which comes so much of oursuperstition and fable. But belief in magic is passing away, and thecustoms of All-hallow Eve have arrived at the laststage ; for they have become mere sports, repeatedfrom year to jear like holiday celebrations. Indeed, the chief thing which this paper seeksto impress upon your minds in connection withAU-hallow Eve is lliat its curious customs show howno generation of men is altogether separated fromearlier generations. Far as we think we arc fro
StNicholas . as for October, 1879. And almost all ofthese, if traced to their sources, lead us back tothat dim past out of which comes so much of oursuperstition and fable. But belief in magic is passing away, and thecustoms of All-hallow Eve have arrived at the laststage ; for they have become mere sports, repeatedfrom year to jear like holiday celebrations. Indeed, the chief thing which this paper seeksto impress upon your minds in connection withAU-hallow Eve is lliat its curious customs show howno generation of men is altogether separated fromearlier generations. Far as we think we arc fromour unciviHzed ancestors, much of what they didand thought has come into our doing and think-ing,—with many changes perhaps, under differentreligious forms, and sometimes in jest where theywere in earnest. Still, these customs and observ-ances (of which AU-hallow Eve is only one) maybe called the piers, upon which rests a bridge thatspans the wide past between us and the gen-erations that have gone l88i WALLACE Ol UHLKX. ^5 WALLACE OF E. Vinton
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