Excerpt from Lives and Labours of Leading Naturalists Precisely the same indifference to the softer aspects of nature, and the same insensibility to its beauties, are Shown by modern savages, and, for essentially the same reasons, by the poorest members of civilised com munities at the present day. We may take it for granted, however, that, just as existing savages are usually accurately acquainted with the larger animals inhabiting their country, so the early flint-men of Post glacial Europe must have possessed a minute knowledge of the external Characters and habits of such animals as the cave-lion, the cave-bear, the mammoth, and the rein deer. Such accurate knowledge of animals, however, even if wholly confined to an acquaintance with their general appearance and mode of life, is, in truth, the basis of scientific natural history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.