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learn somet'rng about the kind of lives they 

 lived. 



2. Domesticated and Wild Animals. 



All domesticated animals have come from wild 

 animals. Man was once a wild animal himself — 

 before he had invented houses, and farms, and 

 clothes, and vehicles, and art, and science, and be- 

 fore he had acquired the enterprise to domesticate 

 other animals. 



In many cases it is possible to put our finger 

 on the particular wild species from which each 

 domesticated variety has come. In other cases 

 this is impossible. This may be due to the fact 

 that the changes in the domesticated race have 

 been so great that it is no longer possible to iden- 

 tify the ancestral species; or it may be because 

 the wild part of the species has been exterminated 

 since domestication began and the species exists 

 now only in the captive state. This last is true 

 of the camels. There are no wild camels. All the 

 camels there are in the world are associated with 

 men. 



"Wild" is an adjective which is applied to 

 those races of beings which are not associated 

 with man. Wild animals are sometimes thought 

 of as being in an unnatural state. This is not true. 

 It is the surroundings of the domesticated animals 

 and of man that are artificial. 



Animals are domesticated for various purposes 

 — the sheep for its hair, the horse for its strength 



