Haggard, H. Rider (Henry Rider), 1856-1925 / 2008-07-05 00:00:00

EBOOK SMITH AND THE PHARAOHS ***


Produced by John Bickers; Dagny


SMITH AND THE PHARAOHS AND OTHER TALES
By H. Rider Haggard

Contents:
Smith And The Pharaohs
Magepa The Buck
The Blue Curtains
Little Flower
Only A Dream
Barbara Who Came Back


SMITH AND THE PHARAOHS

I
Scientists, or some scientists--for occasionally one learned person
differs from other learned persons--tell us they know all that is worth
knowing about man, which statement, of course, includes woman. They
trace him from his remotest origin; they show us how his bones changed
and his shape modified, also how, under the influence of his needs and
passions, his intelligence developed from something very humble.
They demonstrate conclusively that there is nothing in man which the
dissecting-table will not explain; that his aspirations towards another
life have their root in the fear of death, or, say others of them, in
that of earthquake or thunder; that his affinities with the past are
merely inherited from remote ancestors who lived in that past, perhaps a
million years ago; and that everything noble about him is but the fruit
of expediency or of a veneer of civilisation, while everything base must
be attributed to the instincts of his dominant and primeval nature.
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