Part II: The Foreman 



THE MAN AND THE MATERIAL 



Section I 

 The Man and the Discovery 



'faff rials and Their Uses. One 

 of my friends is engaged in a very interesting line 

 of work. His business is exploration for years 

 he has wandered through little known parts of the 

 world, intent on discovering what these places 

 contain and to what use their products may be 

 put. Every few years he turns up with a series 

 of yarns about the places and the peoples he has 

 met, or the animals and the curious natural ex- 



ts he has seen. The last time he came in, he 

 said that he had been through some mountain 

 ranges in the tropics which had not been explored 

 before by white men. In these mountains he had 

 found a race of people whose weapons were of 

 stone and who had not yet learned to make any 

 coverings. They had discovered the use of fire in 

 the past but did not know how to kindle 



> they were compelled to nourish carcfullv, 

 day and night, embers kept upon an altar in the 



.c- village and originally obtained from some 

 be. Whenever they went on any trip 

 they were compelled to carry burning brands with 

 them. 



My friend said that he supposed these people 

 had found out the cutting effect of the stones by 



