PART III. 



The Origin of Higher Peoples 



1. Purpose of the Lesson. 



All civilized peoples have come from savage peo- 

 ples. They have grown from savages, just as you 

 and I as individuals have grown from babies. It 

 is important to know this. For we can't under- 

 stand the things civilized men and women do and 

 think and feel — many of them are so barbarous 

 and strange — unless we recognize the fact that 

 civilized men and women are merely made-over 

 savages. 



It is also important to know something of the 

 nature and ideas of savages ; so that we can com- 

 pare them with our own nature and ideas and see 

 how much of us has survived from savage times 

 and how much has been produced since then. 



The purposes of this lesson are, therefore, (1) to 

 teach you that all higher peoples go back in their 

 ancestry to savages, and (2) to teach you some- 

 thing about what sort of beings savages are ; that 

 is, something about what sort of animals our an- 

 cestors were. 



2. Where the English Came From. 



Go back into the past two or three thousand 

 years, and you don't find any English in the world, 

 nor any French, nor Spanish, nor Germans, nor 



