ABSTRACT
The word “archaic” means primal-original. While it is one of the most difficult and thankless of tasks to say anything of importance about civilized man of today, authors are apparently in a more favourable position with regard to archaic man. It is true that primitive man is simpler and more childlike than we, in good and evil alike. This in itself does not impress the people as strange. It is a rational presupposition of ours that everything has a natural and perceptible cause. Primitive man expects more of an explanation. What authors call chance is to him arbitrary power. It was therefore the intention of the crocodile-as everyone could observe-to seize the woman who stood between the other two.
