| From the accounts
that we read of the half-man of the Paleolithic Age, we have to conclude that primitive
man was not much above the level of the animal, that with him the law of the jungle
prevailed and that he was content with the struggle for existence and the satisfaction of
his animal desires. Even inspite, of his great
and wonderful advancement in material civilisation and rapid strides he has made in the
acquisition of knowledge, and in the progress of science, man has not made much progress
in rising superior to his animal nature. A writer
has said, "Man has learnt to fly in the air like a bird and to swim in the water like
a fish, but he has not learnt to walk on earth like a man." But it is equally true
that he is much more than an animal and that he is essentially, a spirit also. The divine
spark in him lights his whole nature. The reflective capacity of the human mind and its
power of free invention cannot partake of the nature of instincts. |
