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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER 



Preface 



I. The Coming of Life 



bacteria, protozoa and the cell, amoeba, 

 plants and animals. coelenterates, organs 

 and tissues. worms. the building of a body, 

 annelids. the rise of muscle and sense-organs. 



II. The Coming of a Backbone ig 



EXTERNAL PROTECTIVE SKELETON OF MOLLUSKS. 

 THE CLAM. SQUIDS. EXTERNAL LOCOMOTIVE SKELE- 

 TON OF ARTHROPODS. INSECTS. SMALL SIZE. 

 METAMORPHOSIS. VERTEBRATES AND THE INTERNAL 

 LOCOMOTIVE SKELETON. BONE, MUSCLE AND BRAIN. 

 SHARKS AND GANOIDS. 



III. The Rise of Land Life 31 



GANOIDS AND LIFE IN FRESH WATER. EMERGENCE 

 ON LAND. AMPHIBIA. RISE OF TEMPERATURE. 

 DECREASE IN NUMBER OF EGGS. CARE OF YOUNG. 

 REPTILES, BULK AND POWER. BIRDS AND SWIFT- 

 NESS. MAMMALS AND SUCKLING OF YOUNG. PRI- 

 MATES AND ARBOREAL LIFE. HAND AND BRAIN. 



IV. The Coming of Savage Man 41 



CLIMATIC CHANGES AND FORCED MIGRATIONS. DE- 

 SCENT FROM THE TREES. APE-MAN. THE IRANIAN 

 PLATEAU AND ROUTES OF EMIGRATION. NORTHERN 

 EUROPE DURING THE GLACIAL PERIOD. FAMILY 

 AND SOCIAL LIFE. BURIAL OF DEAD. WONDER AND 

 THOUGHT. THE CRO-MAGNON RACE. 



V. The Dawn of Civilization 53 



INDUSTRIES. DOLMENS. RISE OF AGRICULTURE. 

 TAMING OF THE SAVAGE. TRIBAL LIFE AND TRIBAL 

 CONSCIENCE. SOCIAL LIFE, FOLKWAYS AND MORALS. 

 PRIMITIVE RELIGION. CULTS AND MYSTERIES. THE 

 GODDESS. 



VI. The Rise of Personality 64 



TRADE, commerce, MIGRATIONS. THE COMING OF 

 the ARYANS. THE ACHAEANS. CULTS AND THEO- 

 RIES. DIVERSITY OF GIFTS AND TENDENCIES. DI- 

 VERGENCE. THE RISE OF THE HERO. PERSONALITY 

 AND LOYALTY. 



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