A Short History of the World

Himalayas and the mountain backbone of the Rockies and Andes were thrust up, and that the rude outlines of our present oceans and continents appeared. The map of the world begins to displ

a fresh phase of great abundance was reached, after which conditions grew hard again and the earth passed

conditions that lie before us. We may be moving towards increasing sunshine or lapsing towards another glacial age; volcan

in the world; and with the full development of the once obscure mammalian type, appear

plenty that was now beginning, nature was merely repeating the first, with herbivorous and carnivorous mammals to parallel the herbivorous and carnivorous dinosaurs, with birds replacing pterodactyls and so on. But this would be an altogether superficial compari

THE EARLY CA

erum (Bronto

ne. The young reptile has no knowledge whatever of its parent; its mental life, such as it is, begins and ends with its own experiences. It may tolerate the existence of its fellows but it has no communication with them; it never imitates, never learns from them, is incapable of concerted action with them. Its life is that o

ibe and race of the mammalian animals, a steady universal increase in brain capacity. For instance we find at a comparatively early stage that rhinoceros-like beasts appear. There is a creature, the Tita

ther in herds, packs and flocks, watching each other, imitating each other, taking warning from each other's acts and cries. This is something that the world had not seen before among vertebrated animals. Reptiles and fish may no doubt be found in swarms and shoals; they have been hatched in quantities and similar conditio

ITCHCOCKI-A

Hist.

TOHIPPUS VENTIC

Hist.

implicity because all our motives are complicated; our's are balances and resultants and not simple urgencies. But the mammals and birds have self-restraint and consideration for other individuals, a social appeal, a self- control that is, at its lower level, after our own fashion. We

OF BRAINS OF RHINO

Hist.

marks a new communication and interdependence of individuals. It foresha

g, disappeared. On the other hand a series of forms led up by steady degrees from grotesque and clumsy predecessors to the giraffes, camels, horses, elephants, deer, dogs and lions and tigers of the existing world. The evolution of the horse is particul