252 THE COMING OF MAN 



ing brain and a throat and tongue which can be 

 trained to communicate the thought of the mind. 

 But even more than all these, God has given to man- 

 kind a loving spirit which is a part of Himself. Be- 

 cause of this precious gift men became the children 

 of God. 



How do you suppose they began to use those gifts 

 that made them so different from the animals? 

 What impulse first made them stoop to pick up a 

 stone and then throw it in self-defense at some 

 animal prowling near by? What made them notice 

 that a sharp stone would defend them better than a 

 round one? And what was it that prompted them to 

 chip one stone to a point with another? 



Monkeys and apes will throw stones to defend 

 themselves, but they have never been known to 

 sharpen them to a point. They have not the seeing 

 eye and the thinking brain that men have. The eyes 

 of men see not only the objects about them, but they 

 see what can be done with the objects. 



Did you ever watch a baby trying to put one block 

 upon another, and hear its happy laughter when it 

 succeeded? Probably those early men laughed with 

 surprised delight when they found that they could do 

 new things, for they were but babies, after all, in this 

 great, new world. 



There is something within us all that urges us on to 

 try always to do things in a better way. That is our 

 spirit, the supreme gift of God. And even in those 

 early days, the spirit which was a part of each man 

 and woman urged them on to better ways of life. 



They first lived in caves. They ate roots and 



