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the craving for cruel, fierce activity which the men 

 of the false type felt. 



Furthermore, numbers of fierce, combative males 

 craving action for their unemployed faculties may 

 have occurred at that time in fairly constant and 

 considerable proportions throughout the whole race. 

 For their existence and activity had been absolutely 

 essential to survival until then. And wherever they 

 were found the reasons which caused them as above 

 stated to prey upon the gentle and defenceless of their 

 own fellows remained in full force. 



It can therefore be safely taken for granted that 

 the example and success of the first few of these rob- 

 ber raids above mentioned led to the rapid exten- 

 sion and multiplication of such enterprises, until 

 they became wellnigh universal and continuous 

 within the area inhabited by man. 



When intro-racial predatoriness had by these 

 means become general, the whole race, except the 

 predatory men, suffered from the prevailing state 

 of insecurity. Probably only the few matriarchal 

 and patriarchal groups, which may have existed 

 in that period, were able to offer successful resistance 

 to these raids. But, as has been shown in earlier 

 chapters, mankind at that time lived mostly in iso- 

 lated families. The females and young of these, 

 if they escaped slaughter and captivity, were driven 

 from their retreats and dispersed. 



Terror-struck and running away from their ene- 

 mies, without knowing whither, these fugitives 



