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s and had begun to live in caves, they had not 

 discovered a way in which to ute the wood from 

 -he trco, except by burning the ends of sticks in 



.md using the point is as spears. T 



learned that stone would cut, and they learned 

 how to find the stone which had the right shape 

 for cutting and, after a long time, they learned 

 to put the stick and the stone together with some 



material which would bind them and make a 

 spear, an axe, or a knife. 



I was the beginning of industry, for man 

 has always IcarncJ. through doing the thing, 1 

 it could be improved. The man who could find 

 the sharpest stones was soon the greatest provider 

 ood and the greatest protector of the tribe. 

 I hen came the man who discovered how to pouiul 

 these stones with another one to produce a better 

 cutting edge. He then became a leader until he 

 was displaced by the man who discovered that he 

 could tie a stone to a piece of stick with a strip 

 of skin and make a weapon that was much more 

 useful than any of the others. All this was a part 

 of the discovery of the usefulness of the matt- 

 The same process was also gone through with the 

 things fit for food and the materials for clothes. 



A/ Could Think. 



\ ic of the discoveries mentioned would h 

 been possible if man had not been endowed with 

 thinking powers and the consequent ability to note 

 what he saw, to remember it, and to imagine how 

 he could make use of materials. In other words, 

 the thinking process came first The whole his- 



