l62 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



would always be the weaker tribes who would 

 be driven from the ground which had become 

 overstocked, and as the lands to which they 

 went forth were less and less hospitable in 

 climate and productions, the struggle for 

 life would be always harder. And so it 

 always happens in the natural and necessary 

 course of things, that the races which were 

 driven farthest would be the rudest — the 

 most engrossed in the pursuits of mere 

 animal existence. 



And now, does not this key of principle 

 fit into and explain all the facts ? Do they 

 not seem in the light of that explanation to 

 take form and order ? Is it not true that the 

 lowest and rudest tribes in the population 

 of the globe have been found at the farthest 



