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imagination dawned in mankind. The mind of woman is the 

 mind of comprehension, but in practice, most women's minds 

 are a combination of Imagination and Comprehension, and as 

 she added comprehension of God to man's Imagination, her 

 thoughts rose to heaven in prayer. 



Although it should belong to Chapter V. of Book II., I have 

 tried herein to portray the probable manner in which woman's 

 prayers and sufferings for the sake of her children made man- 

 kind worthy to receive the gifts of a human soul as each of 

 the three qualities of his mind became evolved in the course of 

 three separate evolutions, for I thought by so doing the reader 

 would better grasp the distinctions and separate individuality 

 of the three classes of mind. And what more beautiful and 

 appropriate surroundings could God have devised to herald in 

 the advent of the human soul and mind in place of the animal 

 one, or the first dawn of soul in man, and religion in woman, 

 than the perfection of beastliness that man had evolved opens 

 up to our imagination when we consider all the probable sur- 

 roundings of this period of evolution? What fitter cradle for 

 the birth of the soul in mankind than the ardent prayer that 

 the devoted mother can well be imagined to have offered up, 

 in spirit if not in words, when her cruel and relentless hus- 

 band, with his murderous and cannibalistic qualities now fully 

 developed to their highest pitch, enraged by the fact that the 

 Glacial Period, at which we have now arrived, and which is 

 contemporary with the evolutions of Imagination and Com- 

 prehension, and which is now driving him back from all his 

 mighty conquests throughout Northern Asia and Europe into 

 the Heart of India, Persia and Southern Siberia, full of bitter- 

 ness and rage, he, who through millions of years conquered 

 all material obstacles and out-lived and out-fought all the 

 mammoth creation of angels, mighty as was their superiority 

 over him, and brought all the animal kingdom in submission 

 to his feet, finds himself at last defeated by cold, wind, flood, 

 air and water and by the mysterious powers of nature which 

 he is powerless to defeat. 



Powers he can feel but not conquer. Hungry, cold and 

 starving, he is driven into his cave, for snow, wet and storm 

 have destroyed his courage, depopulated his hunting grounds, 

 and wiped out of existence his fields and gardens. In his 

 rage and anger, cold and hungry, he returns home and, 



