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  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 
  

  

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