Sentence:  [T]he critics above named, define in a general manner a <WSD>mythos</WSD> as the exposition of a fact, or of a thought, under the historical form—it is true; but yet, under the form stamped upon it by the symbolical genius and language of antiquity, so full of warmth and imagination. At the same time, <WSD>mythoses</WSD> have been distinguished into different kinds. The <WSD>mythoses</WSD> of history, that is to say, the recital of real events colored only by the ancient opinions, which confounded the divine with the human, the natural with the supernatural,—also the philosophic <WSD>mythoses</WSD>, those in which a simple thought, a speculation contemporaneous, or a novel idea are enveloped. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology.