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ness of calculation, celerity of concerted movement, general corps 

 d'esprit, etc. 



It is, however, hardly necessary to say that all plays are not 

 derived from predatory occupations. There are the plays of court- 

 ship, incentive and katabolic, and also occupational plays in which 

 social interaction, group activity, division of labor and rudimentary 

 forms of government are very prominent. One reference alone may 

 be given, taken from the incentive plays of courtship. "In the 

 guayacan, the favorite dance of the Oyampia, men and women form 

 a circle, stamp heavily twice, go forward, let go, embrace each other 

 in couples, and whirl swiftly round in time with the reed-flute. The 

 hamhuko is nothing but a constant pursuit of the lady; she retires, 

 turns round, at the same time modestly lowering her eyes, lets her 

 arm hang loosely down, hardly raises her foot from the ground, 

 persistently retreats before the charge of her partner, until she 

 at last languidly surrenders and is led away in triumph. If this 

 dance is not an imported fandango, it merely shows what a favor- 

 ite business all the world over is this story of seeking and win- 

 ning. Besides this, the Indians of Guiana, who have remained un- 

 touched by Spanish and Portuguese influence, like to dance love 

 stories."! 



Courting itself is a form of combat.- The origin of oratory, 

 singing, dancing, combat, rivalry, coquetry, display of form, color 

 and prowess is to be found partly in the courting activities of animals 

 and man. Tattooing, cosmetics and many forms of adornment, includ- 

 ing clothing, have a similar origin. ^ 



(II). The second form which play tends to assume is that of 

 the present-day adult activities modified to suit the growing plastic 

 mind of youth. 



The play of children with dolls revealing, as it does, many 

 characteristic functions of play, may be taken as an example of many 



'Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. II. p. 22. 



'Colin A. Scott. Sex and Art, Amer. J. of Psych., Vol. 7, No. 2. 



^'Westermarck, History of Human Marriagre, London, 1894. 



Ratzel, History of Mankind, Vol. I, pp. 195 ff. 



Gustav Nauniann, Geschlecht und Kunst, Prolegomena zu einer physiologrischen Aesthetik, 

 Leipzig, 1899. 



Havelock Ellis. Evolution of Modesty, Psych. Rev., March, 1899. 



