HISTORY, 
The world is very old. For more ages than we 
dream men have lived and loved, toiled, sown and 
reaped. The history of the race is written in the 
form, variation and characteristics of animals and 
plants much more than in tablets of stone or pieces 
of clay. Would you ask how long men have lived 
on earth? Ask when first hornless cattle were kept. 
Records in Egypt show them to have been common 
thousands of years before the time of Christ. 
Ask when sheep were first tamed and their fleeces 
developed. The very race of wild sheep has per- 
ished from the face of the earth and the sheep of 
Abraham’s day were highly developed. Ask when 
wheat was taken from being a wild grass and made 
a cultivated plant; when the banana ceased to have 
seeds; the apple gathered sweetness and the vine 
began to hang down with luscious clusters of pur- 
pling grapes. Ask, too, when it was that animals 
became the subjects and friends of men; when men 
began to feed them, to gather forage for them, to 
cultivate plants for them, to perceive which plants 
were the best plants and which best fed the animals. 
Ask, too, when men first saw that soils grew worn, 
that certain plants fed soils, that other plants caused 
them to become infertile. 
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