Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — Early Men In Tribe«. [ARTICLE]

Early Men In Tribe«.

There is every evidence that the earliest men in our acorn and clameating ancestry—who may have lived a quarter of a mil ion years ago, and probably four times as long ago—did not live in families nor merely as individuals, but as tribes, or in flocks or droves, or in a gregarious manner. The tendency of most animal is to live together iu numbers. Tho family as a unit in our present society is no doubt a very modern feature. Early men ■worked and hunted and lived in common. All of the very lowest races of men are found living in tribes today. The cannibals of Africa do so; the Eskimo of the Arctic regions live in bands, and the wild Indians of North aud South America *do the same thing. The closer but more complex combination of men in modern civil society makes man gregarious in better senses than in the childhood of the race, and in such combination he finds all the advantages of what we term modern life. Tribal as well as individual whim or caprice have given way to rules and regulations called law, and civilized men now live on vastly higher levels than ever before.