Capitolo 63
pulpy shine of a moon-turned on night.
If such it is the changes of but some centuries, what owes not us
you consider that the changes have been during the innumerable centuries that
have away first sped since man appeared on the scene! The soon
Greek writers and Romans very they were right more neighbor when them
primitive and considered man to have been but a disdains degree
removed by the world of beast. Horace is expressed this way:
"When animals first they walked to on all four ahead from the earth recently formed, a
mute and gross herd, they fought for acorns and waiting for places
--with their fingernails, and with fists--then with batons--and finally
with arm that, it taught from experiments, they had imitated.
They invented then names for things and words to express them
thoughts; after they started to desist from war to strengthen,
city, and it decrees laws." The leads culture of modern times to
very the same conclusion.
It is evident that primitive men are due to be needy of
metals; for him a lot of knowledge requires and experiments
to extract metals from theirs mineral metallic. In the eyes of it attaches with ferocity the,
the various mineral metallic metallic I am simply so a lot of varieties of stone--
very less jewel for his/her purposes that the flint, or of the other
variety. We know him/it to us to historically be true, that a great many
nations have suddenly been open needy of some knowledge
of metals.
When we reflect how much of our present intellectual improvement is due to
the use of metals, we can quickly see that their marks of discovery
a more important epoch in the history of man. There is, then,
every reason to suppose that stone was a more important article
for primitive man. It was the material with which he fought against his
battle for existence, and we don't have need to be amazed that his/her use
wide through an enormously long period of time. Not only it was
so low primitive man down in the staircase, but of the necessity his
progress are due to be a lot of lenses.
The time during which men were suddenly needy of a knowledge