CHAPTER IV. 



A Written Record of Achievements. 



T^HROUGHOUT the centuries of the social and cultural 

 progress of the human race, nothing has changed but 

 human thought. Forms and customs have changed but the 

 substance remains the same. Every step of our advance- 

 ment and progress has been first planned and designed by 

 some human brain and then put into practice and use. Most 

 of these thoughts have come from suggestions obtained 

 through observations of some action of Nature when the 

 idea is formed, and then the details worked out by experi- 

 ment. When a thought takes on action and form and 

 becomes of general use among mankind, it then becomes a 

 part of our advancement and progress. It Is then a heritage 

 for the ages. From the time our primitive ancestors struck 

 the first spark of fire from a flint and shaped their first bow 

 and arrow to the present time, each generation has con- 

 tributed something to succeeding generations which the pre- 

 ceding generation did not have. 



Those of us living on the earth today, because of the 

 accident of the time of our birth, were born into the world 

 of a race of superior beings, superior in Intellect, training 

 and achievements. We were born into the world in an age 

 of advanced civilization, of culture, refinement and prog- 

 ress. There has been left to us as a social heritage the 

 thoughtful experiences of all men of all preceding ages. 



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