How he came to do so, and by what motives he was actuated, is still a mystery.

It may be, as M.Salomon Reinach has also suggested, that it was some curious and indefinable sense of kinship with them that led him to do so, or more probably, as the present writer thinks, some sense of a need of the alliance of animals against hostile spirits.

In all probability it was no motive which we can now fathom.

The mind of early man was like the unfathomable mind of a boy.

From the pastoral life again man passed after long ages into the life of agriculture, and the remains of neolithic man in Gaul and in Britain give us glimpses of his life as a farmer.