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Although the individuals in these crowds could not 

 avoid, in the pursuit of the daily necessities of life, 

 leaving these places, yet would a sufficient number 

 for a nucleus and protecting guard naturally remain 

 behind, and those who had scattered to various dis- 

 tances in the neighborhood would upon the occur- 

 rence of any unusual noise, sight, commotion, etc., 

 feel strongly inclined to hasten back to these meet- 

 ing places. This is one way of accounting for the 

 origin of primitive groups and hordes. 



But suppose introracial warfare had commenced 

 before clubs and missiles were used? Quarrels and 

 contests undoubtedly occurred, as they do among 

 other brutes, but not on so large a scale as to justify 

 naming them "introracial warfare." Conditions 

 were entirely against such assumption. No wide- 

 spread distribution of small accumulations to fur- 

 nish the incentive could have existed before the use 

 of clubs and missiles. The struggle with more pow- 

 erful and better adapted brute enemies and com- 

 petitors was too severe to admit of it. This struggle 

 also furnished more than enough employment in the 

 defence of individual and family safety for all the 

 combative ability in the race. Besides, introracial 

 warfare would have been such an excessive addition 

 to the other disabilities of the race, before clubs and 

 missiles, as must inevitably have led to its speedy 

 extermination. Finally, even if the supposition was 

 rational or based on fact, it could not have produced 

 a different trend of events from that above deduced. 



