306 “THE NILE IS EGYPT” 
decorating himself with the paint made out of a fifth agency, 
the galena, etc. Here exists no direct contagion as with the 
crocodile hunter, or direct connection as with the amulet- 
wearing piscator. That such early men as the pre-dynastics, 
though possessed of no insignificant a culture, should reason 
by causation at a fifth remove, seems lacking in probability, 
especially in a matter of primitive semi-religious belief, which 
is ever slow, ever resentful of change. 
