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Title: The history of mankind
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ratzel, Friedrich, 1844-1904 Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910
Subjects: Ethnology Anthropology
Publisher: London, Macmillan and co., ltd. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
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gh separated by a deepgulf from man of to-day,includes, in its gentler andmore docile members, the natural qualities with which Loango negress at field-work. (From a photograph by Dr. Falkenstein.) he likes best to associate himself. The delight which Indians, or Dyaks, or Nile-negroes take in taming wildanimals is well known. Their huts are full of monkeys, parrots, and other playmates.It may be that the strong impulse to companionship which exists in man may havehad more to do with the first effective step towards acquiring domestic animals thanany eye to the use to be made of them. Thus we find, no less among the lowestraces of existing mankind than in the remains of civilization anterior to the intro-duction of domestic animals and cultivated plants, the dog as the sole permanentcompanion ; and his usefulness is limited enough.1 Generally, indeed, it is difficult 1 (May not his use in hunting, which is considerable, have been discovered by men in the hunting-stage ofdevelopment ?)
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9o THE HISTORY OF MANKIND to draw any certain conclusion from the purpose which an animal serves in ourcivilization, as to that for which man first associated him with himself. In Africaand Oceania the dog is used for food. We may suppose that the horse and thecamel were in the first instance tamed, not so much for the sake of their speedas for the milk of their females. A certain friendship, even in more civilizedcountries, attaches the shepherd to the members of his flock. Thus cattle-farmingis a pursuit which arouses more enthusiasm than agriculture. It is more oftenthe mens work, and exercises a far deeper influence on all private and publicrelations. Nowhere in Africa do the fruits of the field form to the same extentas the herds the basis of life, the source of pleasure, the measure of wealth, themeans of acquiring all other desirable articles, especially women ; lastly evencurrency, as when pecus gave its name to pecunia. Many a race has carried thisidentification of its existe

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