iSo PHYSICAL BASIS OF CIVILIZATION 



Since this description includes the true race char- 

 acteristics, which are a hindrance rather than a 

 help where ferocious, determined, merciless, bitter 

 righting against great odds is required, and since 

 nature had selected men for many generations ex- 

 clusively with reference to qualifications for such a 

 struggle, therefore it follows that men without 

 nobler tendencies must have been the rule, those 

 with them the exception. Not until men had learned 

 to arm themselves artificially could a more general 

 return of the stronger sex to the true hereditary race 

 characteristics be looked for. 



It must have produced a wonderful transforma- 

 tion when this took place, when men began to arm 

 themselves with sticks and stones. What a con- 

 trast between the miserably helpless upright brute 

 and the hero with the club and missiles ! 



Such a type of men supplied with these artificial 

 weapons, for which their organism had such won- 

 derful natural adaptation, was easily a match for 

 the fiercest and most powerful among their brute 

 enemies and competitors. 



With the acquisition of ever better skill in the use 

 of clubs and missiles, and with improvements made 

 from time to time in their form and quality, there, 

 therefore, came an end to the perils and disabilities 

 which had kept the race close to the verge of exter- 

 mination. Security had come at last, and with it 

 increase in numbers. Matriarchal and patriarchal 

 groups were probably in process of formation. Nat- 





