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THE dissipation of illusions is always a little painful, even after repeated experience of the process. I must confess, then, to some feeling of injury at learning from Mr. Keane's interesting review in NATURE, vol. xxvii. p. 171, that Huc's “tree of ten thousand images” is nothing more than a common white lilac. Myths of this kind I have generally found to have some substratum of fact at the bottom. They can be rationalised, and mere explosion does not seem to be a satisfactory way of getting rid of them.
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DYER, W. The Sacred Tree Of Kum-Bum . Nature 27, 223–224 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027223c0
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