3o6 "THE NILE IS EGYPT" 



decorating himself with the paint made out of a fifth agency, 

 the galena, etc. Here exists no direct contagion as with the 

 crocodile hunter, or direct connection as with the amulet- 

 wearing piscator. That such early men as the pre-d3mastics, 

 though possessed of no insignificant a culture, should reason 

 by causation at a fifth remove, seems lacking in probabihty, 

 especially in a matter of primitive semi-religious belief, which 

 is ever slow, ever resentful of change. 



