takes many shapes, and we have seen instances of it during the war
in various ways. It is surely readily recognisable, for example, in
that spirit of sheer ruthlessness which inspired the perpetration
of the inhuman outrages that have laid Belgium waste, and of the
killing of harmless women and children by naval shells at the peaceful
watering-place of Scarborough. Another and more innocuous form of
going back to the habits and methods typical of primitive man, is,
perhaps, traceable in the illustrations given above. They are some
of the handiwork of the twentieth-century German military cavemen of

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[Illustration: THE ENEMY AS PORTRAYED BY HIMSELF ON CHALK: THE GERMAN
SOLDIER-CAVEMAN AS ARTIST IN THE AISNE QUARRIES.]

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the Aisne battlefield, while making use of the cover of the quarries and
natural excavations of the district along the northern side of the river.
In very much the same way, as modern exploration has brought to light, the
primaeval cave-dwelling inhabitants of Europe in prehistoric times left
rudimentary traces of their presence in certain places in the shape of
carvings and roughly painted "portraits" of themselves, of the creatures