THE DA WN OF MIND 163 



Mind emerged from the animal state, for a long 

 time, and in the very nature of the case, no 

 record of its progress could come down to us. 

 The material Body has left its graduated impress 

 upon the rocks in a million fossil forms ; the Spirit 

 of Man, at the other extreme of time, has traced 

 its ascending curve on the tablets of civilization, in 

 the drama of history, and in the monuments of 

 social life ; but the Mind must have risen into its 

 first prominence during a long, silent and dateless 

 interval which preceded the era of monumental 

 records. Mind cannot be exhumed by Palaeon- 

 tology or fully embalmed in unwritten history, and 

 apart from the analogies of Embryology we have 

 nothing but inference to guide us until the time 

 came when it was advanced enough to leave some 

 tangible register behind. 



But so far as knowledge is possible there are 

 mainly five sources of information with regard to 

 the past of Mind. The first is the Mind of a 

 little child; the second the Mind of lower animals; 

 the third, those material witnesses — flints, weapons, 

 pottery — to primitive states of Mind which are 

 preserved in anthropological museums; the fourth 

 is the Mind of a Savage ; and the fifth is 

 Language. 



The first source — the Mind of a little child — has 



