ABSTRACT
A history of the human quality of man must begin with an investigation of his primary condition; and, to a certain extent, this condition still prevails among the so-called primitive peoples of our contemporary world. A dog is domestic animal, a creature almost human, living under artificial, planned and fairly safe conditions. Primitive man has no more realization of natural birth than of death. A spirit enters into a girl or woman who happens to be passing by, and the child she brings forth is at first hardly considered as a human being. Since primitive man was utterly exposed among a multitude of ever-present spirits, and suspected the work of some spirit in every happening, his life was replete with magical acts. Thus man's intercourse with deity reached a stage where, for the first time, he was confronted with the principle of his origin, where, from the level of the present, he faced his beginnings in time.
