CHAPTER 1 

 THE ASCENT OF THE BODY 



'' I ^HE earliest home of Primitive Man was a 

 cave in the rocks — the simplest and most 

 unevolved form of 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 simple 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 

 huts, a hut with two rooms. From the two- 

 roomed hut we pass, among certain tribes, to 



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