The First Days of Man
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Kummer Frederic Arnold. The First Days of Man
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
PREFACE FOR PARENTS
CHAPTER I. HOW MOTHER NATURE MADE THE EARTH READY FOR MAN
CHAPTER II. THE FISH THAT GOT STUCK IN THE MUD
CHAPTER III. THE APE THAT WALKED LIKE A MAN
CHAPTER IV. THE HUNGRY APE AND THE BUNCH OF WILD FRUIT
CHAPTER V. THE CAVE AND THE FISH
CHAPTER VI. ADH'S FIRST FIGHT
CHAPTER VII. RA MAKES A NEW SPEAR
CHAPTER VIII. MA-RA FINDS A NEW KIND OF FOOD, AND A COAT OF FUR
CHAPTER IX. THE COMING OF FIRE
CHAPTER X. THE FIRST BOAT
CHAPTER XI. TOR-AD THE POTTER
CHAPTER XII. HOW RA-NA SAVED HIS PEOPLE
CHAPTER XIII. THE FIRST BOW AND ARROW
CHAPTER XIV. KA-MA THE TRAVELLER
CHAPTER XV. THE SEA PEOPLE
CHAPTER XVI. MA-YA BUILDS A CANOE
CHAPTER XVII. THE CONQUERORS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE ISLAND MEN
CHAPTER XIX. THE FIRST SEA FIGHT
CHAPTER XX. THE SEA ROVERS
CHAPTER XXI. THE END OF THE STONE AGE
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Every child, between the ages of five and fifteen, seeks by constant questioning to grasp the fundamental facts upon which our whole fabric of present-day knowledge is based. These facts, painfully gathered by the human race during its many centuries of development, must of necessity be absorbed by the child within the short space of some ten or twelve years. It is a prodigious task, and one in which the growing mind should be afforded every possible assistance. Two courses are usually adopted by parents; one, to dismiss the child's questions with the stock phrase, "You are not old enough to understand," the other, to place in his hands some so-called book of knowledge, containing, it is true, a great mass of information which the child should possess, but usually so badly presented, so jumbled together, that no one fact has any bearing on another, and thus the child is left to turn from "Why the ocean is salt?" to "What is a lightning rod?" without the least understanding of the principles and laws which underly these and all other facts, and link them together in a composite whole.
The writer has followed, with his own children, a method of presenting the steps in the gradual development of man which has produced most gratifying results. Instead of treating each fact, each laboriously accumulated bit of human knowledge, as a mere isolated patch in a crazy-quilt of information, he has attempted to arrange them in logical sequence, to form an interesting pattern, so that as the child's fund of knowledge increases, he feels a deeper and deeper interest in fitting each newly acquired fact into its proper place in his mental picture of things.
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"Sun, the Earth is ready for you now. Please make something grow." Then she went away to look after some other worlds she was fixing up.
The Sun looked down at the Earth and smiled as he saw the nice rich beds of mud, and the great wide Ocean.
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