INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. 



He being physically unable to coup with the rigors of 

 climate much longer without means of covering. Be- 

 cause nature had cooled so as to be inconsistent with 

 his means of life without his adaptation to the condi- 

 tions. The enemy gave him the means of both food 

 and dress. 



The enemy did not alone give him food and dress, 

 but also developed his brain likewise. Opening new 

 avenues of thought. The enemy was the means of 

 bringing the destruction upon itself by suggesting to 

 the man, through necessity, the means of its downfall. 

 The stakes being so high that it suggested to the man 

 every means of thought in overcoming same. If the 

 carnivorous animals would not have bothered man or 

 attacked him in pursuit of his life, he would never 

 have attempted to destroy same or use the flesh for food 

 and the skins for dress. And man would have per- 

 ished. But the stakes made the avenue a necessity. 

 Man acted; he won. Man is not to be credited with 

 the overcoming of the great foe, but instead the con- 

 ditions that brought him into being; and further, the 

 conditions that confronted him in maintaining himself. 

 He was the product of conditions and had to grow to 

 the conditions. Further conditions having forced 

 him, he had to contend with them. It being nature's 

 law to try and perpetuate kind. It being nature's first 

 law to preserve life in the face of every and all dan- 

 gers. Man was born under adverse conditions that 

 he may develop his brain to perpetuate himself and 

 kind. In doing so, nature always suggested the means 



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