DREAMS i~ 



the " great cloud of witnesses " concerning the sur- 

 vival, often in least suspected form, of rude primitive 

 philosophies among the elaborated beliefs of civilised 

 races. 



The youngest and most vigorous of the sciences, 

 Anthropology, has already made us familiar with the 

 nature of a vast body of evidence, uniform in character, 

 unearthed from old river-valleys, caverns, mounds, 

 and tombs, witnessing to the primitive savagery of 

 man and his slow uprising therefrom; but such 

 evidence touches us only on the intellectual side. 

 Even should desired skeletons of veritable men of 

 miocene times still better, of the tc missing" homo 

 simius turn up, we should yet be within the limits of 

 paleontology and zoology. Such relics of our remote 

 ancestry would remain specimens only ( ' a little less 

 than kin." It is not until the evidence from the Drift 

 and from surface remains (about which Knowledge 

 may hereafter tell its readers more in detail) gives 

 place to that supplied by immaterial relics articulate 

 speech, myths which were for the time real, and 

 sufficing explanations to him that man touches us 

 as fcllow-man, as thinker, 1 striving to read " the riddle 

 of the painful earth, " and to peer into the mysteries 

 of being. 



Now, for the purpose of this inquiry, it is needful 

 to have understanding of the mental condition of 



1 "Man, a derivative root, means to think. From this we have 

 the Sanskrit maim, originally thinker, then man." Max Miillers 

 Led. Lang. L, 437. 



