CHAPTER I. 



THE ASCENT OF THE BODY. 



THE earliest home of Primitive Man was a cave in 

 the rocks the simplest and most unevolved form of 

 human habitation. One day, perhaps driven by the 

 want within his hunting-grounds of the natural cave, 

 he made himself a hut an artificial cave. This sim 

 ple dwelling-place was a one-roomed hut or tent of 

 skin and boughs, and so completely does it satisfy 

 the rude man s needs that down to the present hour 

 no ordinary savage improves upon the idea. But as 

 the hut surrounds itself with other huts and grows 

 into a village, a new departure must take place. The 

 village must have its chief, and the chief, in virtue of 

 his larger life, requires a more spacious home. Each 

 village, therefore, adds to its one-roomed hut, a hut 

 with two rooms. From the two-roomed hut we pass, 

 among certain tribes, to three- and four-roomed huts, 

 and finally to the many-chambered lodge of the Head- 

 Chief or King. 



This passage from the simple cave to the many- 

 chambered lodge is an Evolution, and a similar devel 

 opment may be traced in the domestic architecture of 

 all civilized societies. The laborer s cottage of mod- 



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