FROM PRIMITIVE TO MODERN MAN —3 



tural ;u'ti\it\ imt unlikt' tliosc of the Old Stone A'^v. It is remarkable, how- 

 e\ er, that thi' westward tiail alone was the road to protjress. It was the trail 

 w hieh letl to all the great e\ents of iuiiiuia histor\ . It has taken man lhroiiy;h 



riG. 33-,\ THE tSKIMO. 



his long prehistoiie era ol i:)rogressi\e aehie\ement and through the briefer 

 space of his Ijrilliant historical record. 



The Dkaw backs oi- the Western Rolte. And \ et the western route 

 was not without its draw backs. W hatever glories might come of follow ing it 

 were temporary at best. Man mo\ed along its course in an unfailing cycle, 

 w hich had a metrical rhythm almost as exact and quite as foreboding as the 

 chorus of the ancient Greek traged\ . There was that phase which announced 

 his arrival or awakenmg, that rise which ga\e the lull measure of his worth, 



