XI 



KINDEED GKOUP-MAEKIAGE 1 



PART I 



MOTHER-AGE CIVILISATION 



In things of this kind many points must be established before you can 

 assign the true law of the thing in question, and it must be approached by a 

 very circuitous road ; wherefore all the more I call for an attentive ear and 

 mind. LUCRETIUS, Bk. vi. 



(l) IN studying the natural history of the lower forms 

 of life, we are at once impressed by the large part which 

 the hunt for food on the one hand, and the gratifica- 

 tion of the sex-instinct on the other, play in animal 

 existence. The further we go back, also, in the natural 

 history of man, the more dominant the same activities 

 become ; in fact, the history of civilisation is largely a 

 history of the origin and development of new activities 

 serving to some extent to modify and limit the all- 

 absorbing character of these primitive pursuits. But to 

 trace this history of civilisation we require, in the first 

 place, to have a knowledge of the stages through which 

 the momentum of man's more primitive and animal 



1 Originally read as a paper in 1885, but now published for the first time. 



