listener, gripping his wrist to keep him attentive, was the most

marvellous beginning this world has everseen. It doomed the

mammoths, and it began the setting of that snare that shall catch

the sun.

Section 2

Thatdream was but a moment in a man's life, whose proper

business it seemed was to get food and kill his fellows and beget

after the manner of all that belongs to the fellowship of the

beasts. About him, hidden from him by the thinnest of veils, were

the untouched sources of Power, whose magnitude we scarcely do

more than suspect even to-day, Power that could make his every

conceivabledream comereal. But the feet of the race were in

the way of it, though he died blindly unknowing.

At last, in thegenerous levels of warm river valleys, where food

is abundant and life very easy, the emerging human overcoming his

earlierjealousies, becoming, as necessity persecuted him less

urgently, more social and tolerant and amenable, achieved a

larger community. There began a division of labour, certain of

the older men specialised inknowledge and direction, a strong

man took the fatherly leadership in war, and priest and king

began to develop their roles in the opening drama of man's

history. The priest's solicitude was seed-time and harvest and

fertility, and the king ruled peace and war. In a hundred river

valleys about the warm, temperate zone of the earth there were

already towns and temples, a score of thousand years ago. They

flourished unrecorded, ignoring the past and unsuspicious of the

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