Inds and Seas at the Beginning of the Eocene Period.. 86 The Spread of Mankind... 89 Women, Among Savages, Do the Hard Work. 100 The Mother Instinct..... 125 Every Antelope in South Africa Has to Run for Its Life Every Day or Two...... 132 The Fear of Snakes Comes From the Far Past.. 134 Some of the Things in Our Nature That We Would Be Origin of Domesticated 1. A Sub-course of Five Lessons. This lesson on the "Origin of Domesticated Animals" is intended to be a preparation for lesson two. And lessons two and three are intended to prepare for lessons four and five on "Savage Survivals in Higher Peoples." The first three lessons of this series are, therefore, not directly ethical-only indirectly so. They are intended to make plain lessons four and five, which are ethical. We study first the survivals of wild life in domesticated animals, and then the survivals in man. But before we can study the wild survivals in domesticated animals, we must learn first that domesticated animals were once wild animals and learn something about the kind of lives they lived. 2. Domesticated and Wild Animals. All domesticated animals have come from wild animals. Man was once a wild animal himself— before he had invented houses, and farms, and clothes, and vehicles, and art, and science, and before he had acquired the enterprise to domesticate other animals. In many cases it is possible to put our finger on the particular wild species from which each domesticated variety has come. In other cases this is impossible. This may be due to the fact that the changes in the domesticated race have been so great that it is no longer possible to identify the ancestral species; or it may be because the wild part of the species has been exterminated since domestication began and the species exists now only in the captive state. This last is true of the camels. There are no wild camels. All the camels there are in the world are associated with men. "Wild" is an adjective which is applied to those races of beings which are not associated with man. Wild animals are sometimes thought of as being in an unnatural state. This is not true. It is the surroundings of the domesticated animals and of man that are artificial. Animals are domesticated for various purposes -the sheep for its hair, the horse for its strength |