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  GREATNESS 
  OF 
  EARLY 
  INVENTIONS. 
  153 
  

  

  gifts 
  of 
  the 
  human 
  intellect. 
  The 
  same 
  gifts 
  

   and 
  the 
  same 
  powers 
  start 
  in 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  each 
  

   new 
  generation 
  from 
  a 
  higher 
  vantage-ground 
  

   of 
  inherited, 
  and 
  therefore 
  of 
  accumulated 
  

   knowledge 
  ; 
  and 
  it 
  is 
  thus 
  that, 
  without 
  any 
  

   change 
  in 
  their 
  own 
  nature, 
  and 
  even 
  without 
  

   any 
  increase 
  in 
  their 
  own 
  inherent 
  strength, 
  

   they 
  attain 
  gradually 
  to 
  higher 
  and 
  more 
  

   complicated 
  results. 
  And 
  if 
  we 
  are 
  to 
  assume 
  

   with 
  the 
  supporters 
  of 
  the 
  Savage-theory 
  

   that 
  Man 
  has 
  himself 
  invented 
  all 
  he 
  now 
  

   knows, 
  then 
  the 
  very 
  earliest 
  inventions 
  of 
  

   our 
  race 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  the 
  most 
  wonderful 
  

   of 
  all, 
  and 
  the 
  richest 
  in 
  the 
  fruits 
  they 
  bore. 
  

   The 
  men 
  who 
  first 
  discovered 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  fire, 
  

   and 
  the 
  use 
  of 
  those 
  grasses 
  which 
  we 
  now 
  

   know 
  under 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  corn, 
  were 
  dis- 
  

  

  