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Show PAVING THE WAY FOR SCIENCE. Some of the customs among piiml-tivc piiml-tivc peoples seem to give more or less promise or suggestion of later discoveries dis-coveries in science Results have boen, in spite of their misconceptions, misconcep-tions, not in consequence of them May we not credit to the savages faith in magic the inspiration of his ceremonial Institutions and yet feol that hla dawnipg intellect was unconsciously uncon-sciously groping toward a higher do-velopmenf do-velopmenf Though the successful transfusion of blood has been one of the thera-peutio thera-peutio triumphB of recent years, tho Idoa that by drinking tho blood or eating tho flesh of another living being be-ing something of tho nature of that life was absorbed Is very old and appears ap-pears In many forms. In rites of blood-brotherhood men becamo brothers broth-ers by opening the veins and sucking each other's blood Savage man thinks to impart wisdom to the living by bathing the forehead with pro-strved pro-strved drippings of the decomposed brain of another. Indian captives of noted bravery and endurance wero cut In pieces and eaten to absorb their courage Kaffir chiefs on tholr accession were washed in the blood of a slain brother or other relative to give them new vigor. In tho friendship-compelling charm the blood of a relative or kindly dlspoBeJ friend was saturated with oarth and mixed with tho food of one whose favor and assistance as-sistance wero doBlred. Blood of an animal sacrificed for the benefit of a sick person was spread on tho wall, or patient's forehead, to rovlvifv him. j Mayas gave new life to the land by j sprinkling it with blood of slain I fowls Somo Indian tribes started the E newborn child In life by giving it j blood, or urine as a substituto for j blood, as was a custom of rustic nurses in New England. Drinking blood was an ancient Greek test of chastity and voracity. Drinking blood of an 'animal was an ancient rito for becoming possessed with a 'deity or devil, and aoqulrlng inspiration and powor of prophecv At the ontranco of the realms of the doad, tho soothsayer, Tirealas, drank the blood of tho sheop Ods'sseus sacrificed sac-rificed and prophesied; then the mother moth-er of Odyssous drank and was vivified and I "Straight nil the mother in hor awoko." j and as she spoko ghost upon ghoet thronged around tho blood and each I her rare nnd hor illustrious deeds re- ! counted Lewis Davton Burdlck in ! Dietetic and Hygienic Magazine. I |