Note 254 — Chapter VII · THE GODS AND THE SONS OF GOD

In Prehistoric Problems, p. 95, Robert Munro says: “There is no evidence to show that the bow was known to the Paleolithic people.” Personally, in view of their huge brain development, I am disinclined to believe that they had not discovered the bow. I am much more prepared to suppose that though they had discovered most modern baubles, such as pottery, etc., cowardly weapons, like the bow and all those that followed from it (firearms, guns, etc.), were discarded by them owing to the nobility of their instincts. A man must not only be a coward, but also a mean coward, to use the bow and the firearm. All recent races, therefore, are meaner and more cowardly than the Cro-Magnon race.