[34] Cf. Evolution and the Need of Atonement, ch. IV. et passim.
[35] McDowall, opp. citt. passim.
[36] For detailed consideration of the nature of evolutionary process in material conditions reference may be made to my earlier works, to which the present essay constitutes a postscript.
[37] Even though there may be a mating-call.
[38] I believe that I am right in saying that it is not until the Neolithic period that human (female) images are found, and some of these are probably divinities, though Dr A. C. Haddon informs me that there are Neolithic paintings of human beings on rocks in Spain which presumably do not represent divinities.
[39] Really, geometric art seems to have arisen nearly contemporaneously with representative art, for patterns of considerable complexity and symmetry are found in the later palaeolithic period.
[40] Though the representation of an eye is frequently included in the pattern as a counter-charm, and indeed many of the patterns may originally have had a magical significance, though most seem to be merely inspired by woven basket-work and the like.
[41] Fra Lippo Lippi.
[42] I understand that Purcell’s Fairy Queen has just been played at Cambridge with draped scenes only.
[43] Tchaikovsky, letter to N. F. von Meck, Nov. 27th, 1879.