The world: historical and actual . the mammoth, in what seems to have been analmost totally distinct era, man lived in caves, andwas on much the same plane of existence as theFuegians when first discovered. He fed on fruits, (4o) ^ J£* PREHISTORIC MAN. 41 nuts, and roots, on fish or flesh, according to hisopportunities and necessities. Emerging, by slowand gradual steps, from the cavern of darkest sav-agery, primitive man was still a hunter, living bythe chase, or a fisher, as circumstances might deter-mine. What is now the recreation of the over-worked civilized man was the first employment o
The world: historical and actual . the mammoth, in what seems to have been analmost totally distinct era, man lived in caves, andwas on much the same plane of existence as theFuegians when first discovered. He fed on fruits, (4o) ^ J£* PREHISTORIC MAN. 41 nuts, and roots, on fish or flesh, according to hisopportunities and necessities. Emerging, by slowand gradual steps, from the cavern of darkest sav-agery, primitive man was still a hunter, living bythe chase, or a fisher, as circumstances might deter-mine. What is now the recreation of the over-worked civilized man was the first employment ofthe race. A people dependent upon wild beasts of a cave, he has a tent made of the skins of beasts,rude in its simplicity, still a great improvement ona hole in the ground. It was a great step to gofrom wild to domestic animals. The brute andman meet on the same level when both live byrapine and violence. Grazing is an ascent towardthe table-lands of civilization. The Hebrews cantrace their descent from that Bedouin sheik, Abra-. Prehistoric and fish for sustenance are necessarily must follow the trail wherever it leads, and ifneither the game nor the fish appear in their accus-tomed haunts, they must go in search of them. From hunting to pastoral life is the naturalgradation. This, too, is somewhat migratory. Theflocks must be led beside still waters and into greenpastures, be the same far or near. The shepherdis some advance upon the hunter and fisher; still,he is very near the bottom of the ladder. He can-not build him a house or form society. The shep-herd must be in constant readiness to move. Instead Man. ham, but we may all rest assured that in the far-awav ages our ancestors fed their flocks and pitchedtheir tents in true Arabic fashion, however obscurethe annals may be. The hunter maybe as isolatedfrom the rest of his kind as the deer of the forest,mating only at the fierce impulse of a passing pas-sion, but the nomad belongs to a tribe. It may besmall
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