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Title: Falling in love (microform) : with other essays on more exact branches of science
Identifier: cihm_28827 (find matches)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Allen, Grant, 1848-1899
Subjects: Science; Science
Publisher: London : Smith, Elder
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lU A VERY OLD MASTER very early pre-Glacial man is represented in the act of hunting an aurochs, at which he is casting a flint-tipped javelin. In this, as in all other pictures of the same epoch, I regret to say that the ancient hunter is represented in the costume of Adam before the fall. Our old master's studies, in fact, are all in the nude. Primitive man was evidently unacquainted as yet with the use of clothing, though primitive woman, while still unclad, had already learnt how to heighten her natural charms by the simple addition of a necklace and bracelets. Indeed, though dresses were still wholly unknown, rouge was even then extremely fashionable among French ladies, and lumps of the ruddle with which primitive woman made herself beautiful for ever are now to be discovered in the corner of the cave where she had her little prehistoric boudoir. To return to our hunter, however, who for aught we know to the contrary may be our old master himself in person, he is a rather crouching and semi-erect savage, with an arched back, recalling somewhat that of the gorilla, a round head, long neck, pointed beard, and weak, shambling, ill-de- veloped legs. I fear we must admit that pre-Glacial man cut, on the whole, a very sorry and awkward figure. Was he black ? That we don't certainly know, but all analogy would lead one to answer positively. Yes. White men seem, on the whole, to be a very recent and novel improvement on the original evolutionary pattern. At any rate he was distinctly hairy, like the Ainos, or aborigines of Japan, in our own day, of whom Miss Isabella Bird has drawn so startling and sensational a picture. Several of the pre-Glacial sketches show us lank and gawky savages with the body covered with long scratches, answering ex- actly to the scratches which represent the hanging hair of the mammoth, and suggesting that man then still retained bis old original hairy covering. The few skulls and other

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