THE POINT OF VIEW 



can onl}' be developed by struggle, by active, intelli- 

 gent, patient overcoming of difficulties, the elements 

 that achieved success throughout the ancient travail of 

 the race. It is still "To him that overcometh " ; and 

 nothing can take the place of the hard task in education. 

 But there need be no reversion to barbarism. In fact, the 



Fig. I. Primitive German Home and its Uccui'Ations 

 (From a painting by Job. Gehrts) 



work should all be planned to exert the strongest possible 

 uplift toward civilization instead. 



Dominion over Animals. — The step from abject savagery, 

 by which a new relation between mankind and nature was 

 opened up, was domestication of animals. Hitherto life 

 had been a struggle against all nature, against friends and 

 foes alike. At this point man first developed intelligence 



