AND PERSO NALITY 



thinking brain amidst the forces of nature of which he was 

 a part. 



Early man, like primitive man and man today, had much 

 to fear. An animal possessing no fear and living in the midst 

 of danger would not have survived. It is only the alert ani- 

 mal, quick to fear and quick to attack or escape, that 

 survives and has offspring. 



Fear has survival value. Fear exists in all animals that 

 have enemies. Who, in observing the dynamic gazelle, the 

 fleet zebra, or the alert wildebeest would not know that 

 these animals had dangerous enemies ? Just as the carni- 

 vores, through natural selection, gave to the gazelle its 

 acute hearing, its quick eyesight, its keen smell, so, through 

 natural selection, the dangerous competing animals gave 

 to early man his organ of strategy, the brain. These com- 

 peting animals also gave to man his fears, as necessary to 

 man for escape and survival as to the gazelle. 



Having never been out of the domain of the forces of 

 evolution, early man found good and evil in everything 

 about him. Since, in the early stages of his evolution, the 

 action patterns of early man were laid down by his fellow 

 animals, his simple mind considered everything in animal 

 terms. He found that by giving food to the animals that he 

 had domesticated he could control them. He found that by 

 giving something to his young and his relatives, whether 

 it were food, shelter, a skin, or hospitality, he could win the 

 good will and favor of his people. 



Thus, after he had passed the first stage of worship and 

 fear of the natural forces and animals about him, it followed 

 that early man began to worship and fear unseen beings, 

 and, since the most powerful animal for good or for evil 

 in the life of early man was his early fellow man, it is 

 natural that the gods and the devils that he created should 

 have been created in the image of himself. Since man has 

 never been evolved out of the struggle for existence, the 

 word "struggle," even today, just as in the long yesterday, 



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