When the World Was Young (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from When the World Was Young "Playing Indian" is perhaps the modern child's closest point of contact with primitive life. The warpath, the hunt, the chase, revive the aboriginal instincts, but the patient steps by which men have climbed from savagery to civilization, through the exercise of invention and industry, are often overlooked. A vivid picture of primitive man shows him a creature with "no hair on his body to keep him warm, his jaws the feeblest ill the world, his arm not equal to that of the gorilla. He could not fly like the eagle nor see into the night like the owl. Even the hare was fleeter than he. He had no clothing, no shelter, no tools, no industries or experiences, no society or language or arts of pleasure. "The one endowment with promise or potency of all future achievements was the creative spark called invention. The superabundant brain held in trust the possibilities of the future." It is the aim of these stories to stimulate an interest in culture-history, and from a knowledge of past conditions to build up an idea of the meaning of the arts of life in our own time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.