(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, "who was a hammerer and artificer in 

 every work of brass and iron." 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: 2 3. 



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