Modern cosmogonies

Very few even of the most savage tribes are content to take the world just as it is without speculating as to how it came to be. For time has three dimensions-past, present, and future-and we can no more restrict our thoughts within one of them than we can exist corporeally in Flatland. We are, indeed, told that the Abipones and Esquimaux refuse to trouble themselves with questions of origin, on t...