148 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



capable of Invention, and with certain 

 implanted instincts which involve all the 

 rudiments of mechanical skill. The man who 

 first lifted a stone and threw it, practised an 

 art which not one of the lower animals is 

 capable of practising. This is an act which 

 in all probability is as strictly instinctive and 

 natural to Man as it is to a Dog to bite, or 

 to a Bull to charge. Yet the act involves 

 the idea and the knowledge of projectile 

 force, and of the arts by which direction can 

 be given to that force. The wielding of a 

 stick is, in all probability, an act equally 

 of primitive intuition, and from this to the 

 throwing of a stick, and the use of javelins, 

 is an easy and natural transition. Simple as 

 these acts are, they involve both physical 



