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on the prairie. With his tools, man can force his way 

 in all parts of the world and establish himself all over. 

 While almost all animals can live in particular regions, 

 such as supply their wants, and if taken to diflferent 

 regions cannot exist, man has conquered the whole 

 world. Every animal has, as a zoologist expressed it 

 once, its strength by which means it maintains itself in 

 the struggle for existence, and its weakness, owing to 

 which it falls a prey to others and cannot multiply it- 

 self. In this sense, man has only strength and no 

 weakness. Owing to his having tools, man is the 

 equal of all animals. As these tools do not remain 

 stationary, but continually improve, man grows above 

 every animal. His tools make him master of all crea- 

 tion, the king of the earth. 



In the animal world there is also a continuous de- 

 velopment and perfection of organs. This develop- 

 ment, however, is connected with the changes of the 

 animal's body, which makes the development of the 

 organs infinitely slow, as dictated by biological laws. 

 In the development of the organic world, thousands 

 of years amount to nothing. Man, however, by trans- 

 ferring his organic development upon external objects 

 has been able to free himself from the chain of biologic 

 law. Tools can be transformed quickly, and technique 

 makes such rapid strides that, in comparison with the 

 development of animal organs, it must be called mar- 

 velous. Owing to this new road, man has been able, 

 within the short period of a few thousand years, to 

 rise above the highest animal. With the invention of 

 these implements, man got to be a divine power, and 

 he takes possession of the earth as his exclusive do- 

 minion. The peaceful and hitherto unhindered devel- 

 opment of the organic world ceases to develop accord- 



