Show why we are right banded primitive man being naturally an animal defended himself against wild beasts with his fists aud nails he fought for his food and his womankind which his enemies were always mryr r tj take from him the first movement on being attacked is to endeavor to protect tho most exposed and vulnerable part of the body for the boxer and the fighter the heart is undoubtedly the most vulnerable place A hard blow blo w in that region may easily kill a man and consequently primitive man used tho right hand to fight with and the left to protect the heart and to ward off the blows directed to that region when therefore arms of offense and defense were introduced and replaced teeth and fists it was the right hand that wielded the sword and lance while the left held the shield and buckler bo foro the region of the heart the enormous difference between the use of the right and the left hand in our present civilization has this very simple origin in the first place the superiority perio rity of the right over the left hand was only brought into evidence during a combat but it soon spread and became universal since the introduction of lethal weapons the right hand became naturally accustomed to the manipulation of the lance the sword and the knife and tho nerves of the right side soon became more flexible and more under the control of the will than the muscles of the left side new york ledger |