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THEMYSTERY
Off'
GOLF
defend
with
a
stick,
the
pithecanthropoid
pro-
totypes
of
batting
and
bowling.
The
first
ape
that
tried
to
possess
himself
of
a
fruit
he
could
not
reach,
or
to
repel
a
foe
he
could
not
grap-
ple,
by
throwing
a
stone
or
using
a
branch,
was
in
all
probability
the
progenitor
of
the
hu-
man
race.
It
may,
indeed,
be
that
man's
erect
posture
was
gradually
evolved
by
this
attempt
to
throw
and
wield
(which
could
not
be
done
on
all
fours),
and
that
the
ape
became
the
true
avOpcoiroS=the
true
"face-up-turning"
animal
(dva—rp6rw-C"0*)—when
hesuc-
ceeded
in
hurling
and
hitting.
In
the
case
of
this
supposititious
ape,
the
throwing
and
hit-
ting
were
actions
primarily
prompted
by
hun-
ger
or
love,
by
the
desire
to
obtain
food
or
by
the
desire
to
obtain
a
mate
(or
to
keep
off
a
rival)
—the
two
primal
instincts
of
life.
In
so
far
they
were
highly
utilitarian.
With
all
due
deference
to
Schiller
and
to
Herbert
Spencer,
with
their
theory
of
the
"
play
instinct
"
as
at
the
bottom
of
all
art,
I
E
10
.flnimadver-
sions
uponne
certaine
theories.
1
Off'
GOLF
defend
with
a
stick,
the
pithecanthropoid
pro-
totypes
of
batting
and
bowling.
The
first
ape
that
tried
to
possess
himself
of
a
fruit
he
could
not
reach,
or
to
repel
a
foe
he
could
not
grap-
ple,
by
throwing
a
stone
or
using
a
branch,
was
in
all
probability
the
progenitor
of
the
hu-
man
race.
It
may,
indeed,
be
that
man's
erect
posture
was
gradually
evolved
by
this
attempt
to
throw
and
wield
(which
could
not
be
done
on
all
fours),
and
that
the
ape
became
the
true
avOpcoiroS=the
true
"face-up-turning"
animal
(dva—rp6rw-C"0*)—when
hesuc-
ceeded
in
hurling
and
hitting.
In
the
case
of
this
supposititious
ape,
the
throwing
and
hit-
ting
were
actions
primarily
prompted
by
hun-
ger
or
love,
by
the
desire
to
obtain
food
or
by
the
desire
to
obtain
a
mate
(or
to
keep
off
a
rival)
—the
two
primal
instincts
of
life.
In
so
far
they
were
highly
utilitarian.
With
all
due
deference
to
Schiller
and
to
Herbert
Spencer,
with
their
theory
of
the
"
play
instinct
"
as
at
the
bottom
of
all
art,
I
E
10
.flnimadver-
sions
uponne
certaine
theories.
1
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