The Evolution of Man's Talents and Skills

For primitive man, hard fists and pugnacity were as useful as the ability to be clever at arithmetic and to spell correctly are for modern man. To advise man to return to the physical and intellectual features of his prehistoric ancestors is no more reasonable than to ask him to renounce his upright gait and to grow a tail again. The apostles of violence wrote their books under the sheltering roof of bourgeois security, which they derided and disparaged. They were free to publish their incendiary sermons because the liberalism which they scorned safeguarded freedom of the press. Man was once a brutal beast. But one must not forget that he was physically a weak animal. He would not have