CHAPTER IX.
Civilization and the Unemployed.
Where Civilization fails is in not providing men and women with sufficient work.

In the Stone Age man was, one imagines, kept busy.

When he was not looking for his dinner, or eating his dinner, or sleeping off the effects of his dinner, he was hard at work with a club, clearing the neighbourhood of what one doubts not he would have described as aliens.
The healthy Palaeolithic man would have had a contempt for Cobden rivalling that of Mr.Chamberlain himself.

He did not take the incursion of the foreigner "lying down." One pictures him in the mind's eye: unscientific, perhaps, but active to a degree difficult to conceive in these degenerate days.

Now up a tree hurling cocoa-nuts, the next moment on the ground flinging roots and rocks.