Deeper than the excitement of the chase lies that inner consciousness which dwells upon and questions itself--the soul of the Cave-man pondered upon itself; the question came to him, as he crouched in the semi-darkness, over the fire which he had stirred, 'Will my form and aerial shadow live on after my death like that which passed but now? Shall I, too, be a living dream?' The reply was, 'Yes, I shall continue to be; I shall start forth from my burial-mound upon the chase in the shadow-land just as now I start forth from my cave. I shall entrap the giant woolly elephant--I shall rejoice at his capture; we shall triumph yet again and again. Let then my spear and knife be buried with me, but chip them first--kill them--that I may use their spirit likenesses in the dream-chase.' With a keen-edged splinter of flint in the daylight he incised the outlines of the mammoth upon a smooth portion of its tusk--its image was associated with his thoughts of a future life, and thus Art in its earliest inception represented the highest aspirations of man. But could the ignorant savage of that long-lost day have been capable of such work? The lowest race of savages in Southern Africa--the Bushmen--go about with festoons of entrails wound around their loins. After a successful hunt--with the pit or poisoned arrows--they remove the entrails of the slain animal and wear them like coronals for present ornament and future regalement. These creatures are nevertheless artists. On the walls of caves they have painted the antelope and the lion in bright colours; they have not only caught the shape and hue of the animals about them, but their action and movement. The figures are in motion, skilfully drawn and full of spirit. If any one asks, is the application of Art to the chase really so old, so very very old, as this? I refer them to the stars. How long ago is it since the constellations received their names? At what date were they first arranged in groups? Upon the most ancient monuments and in the most ancient writings they have the same forms assigned to them as at this day, and that too in countries remote from each other. The signs of the Zodiac are almost as old as the stars themselves; that is, as old as the time when the stars were first beheld of human eyes. Amongst them there is the Archer--Sagittarius--the chase in the shape of man; greatest and grandest of all the constellations is Orion, the mighty hunter, the giant who slew the wild beasts by strength. There is no assemblage of stars so brilliant as those which compose the outline of Orion; the Hunter takes the first place in the heavens. Art exists in the imagination--imagination drew lines from star to star, and repeated its life on earth in the sky.