Yet man to-day is the same man that drank from his enemy's skull in
the dark German forests, that sacked cities, and stole his women from
neighbouring clans like any howling aborigine. The flesh-and-blood
body of man has not changed in the last several thousand years. Nor
has his mind changed. There is no faculty of the mind of man to-day
that did not exist in the minds of the men of long ago. Man has to-
day no concept that is too wide and deep and abstract for the mind of
Plato or Aristotle to grasp. Give to Plato or Aristotle the same
fund of knowledge that man to-day has access to, and Plato and
Aristotle would reason as profoundly as the man of to-day and would
achieve very similar conclusions.
It is the same old animal man, smeared over, it is true, with a
veneer, thin and magical, that makes him dream drunken dreams of
self-exaltation and to sneer at the flesh and the blood of him
beneath the smear. The raw animal crouching within him is like the
earthquake monster pent in the crust of the earth.
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