Atavism is not traditionally the stuff of successful musical theater, unless you count the " primitive man " number from " On the Town ."
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But he did write the book, a remarkable document from someone who once said that Christianity and the Bible were the crude reasoning of primitive man.
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"Primitive man, " it asserts, " suffered from less stress and frustration and was better satisfied with his way of life than modern man is ."
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Primitive man never knew where his next handful of nuts and berries would come from, so he instinctively gorged on the rare occasions when he could.
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"This looking with awe and wonder " that primitive man expressed on those dark cave walls, " expresses . . . our desires, our hopes, our truths ."
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At one stage he emerges from the isolation tank as a feral and curiously small-statured, light-skinned Primitive Man, going on a rampage before returning to his natural form.
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In one of their published works, " The Urantia Book ", another reason for this worship of nature came from a fear of the world around primitive man.
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Noticing some white quartz that was foreign to the area he immediately realised that this would be a good place to search for the remains of primitive man.
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It's human nature : When fire swept through the primeval forest, some primitive man must have furrowed his heavy brow and thought, " I can profit from this ."
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Mondavi says the museum's artifacts will date back to primitive man, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans, showing why food, wine and the arts enhance the quality of life.
