Assertion: myth | /r/CapableOf | guard people’sdistinctive values
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text: Gaelic bard Ossian by James Macpherson (1736-1796), the linguistic and mystical speculations of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788), and the books of Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803) all bear witness to the fact that, by the middle of the 18th century, myth was widely assumed to be “a crucial resource for collective identity” and that “myths convey historic, cultural, and practical knowledge while also guarding a [people’s] distinctive values . .