CHAPTER XIX 



PRIMITIVE MAN AND WOMAN 



THEY were paleolithic and neolithic men 

 with whom we have so far been con 

 cerned, and yet they may in many ways 

 have been superior to the paganized civilization of 

 our own days, where it has sunk back again into 

 a barbarism of reckless divorce, animal dances and 

 race-suicide. Only after the enumeration of gen 

 erations, whose chronology affords us no definite 

 knowledge that would enable us with any certainty 

 to approximate the period of intervening years, 

 do we finally come to the first mention of crafts 

 men in the modern sense : Jubal, the musician, and 

 Tubalcain, &quot;who was a hammerer and artificer in 

 every work of brass and iron.&quot; 1 How rapidly 

 this development had come about in this first 

 center of civilization we are not able to say. 



The great longevity of primitive man may be 

 accounted for by conditions preceding the deluge, 

 which itself is a thoroughly verified scientific fact, 

 further substantiated by countless primitive tra 

 ditions, which all confirm the unity of the human 



Gen., IV:3 3 . 



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