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 oi 

 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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