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 be delayed. Meanwhile the mind has been seeking methods and means of satisfying the want—of obeying the law. It would be futile to try to follow the methods understandingly or to try to describe them intelligently. It is possible, nevertheless, even with our lack of knowledge and poverty of data to take a glimpse at the means.

The first speech was gestural, and very largely gestural its successors remain. Primitive man struggled with gestural problems which he tried to bend to his Will. His will was to communicate with his fellows. Gesture was his most effective, if not only, means. He probably was right-handed then as his generations mostly have been since; but whether right- or left-handed, his hand was his chief organ of gesture. That part of his brain which governed the movements of his most effective gestural organ was the part that must have been most susceptible to the educational influences of his will. Thus the