We seem forced to conclude, therefore, that we owe our civilization primarily to the invention of certain primeval implements and weapons, the art of making fire, etc.
Is it probable that the first conception of the phonograph made quite so startling a picture on the accustomed brain of the habitual inventor as that of the art of making fire did on the virgin mentality of the savage?
Viewed from the present age, these smoking, flickering light-sources appear very crude; nevertheless they represent a wide gulf between their users and those primitive beings who were unacquainted with the art of making fire.
Primitive man, desiring a light-source and having no means of making fire, imprisoned the glowing insects in a perforated gourd or receptacle of clay, and thus invented the first lantern perhaps before he knew how to make fire.
But the sluggish mind of primitive man is capable of devising improvements, however slowly, and the art of making fire by means of rubbing fire-sticks gradually became more refined.
Englam-Mana, a tribe of New Guinea, their mode of making fire, ii.
Andaman Islanders, said to be ignorant of the art of making fire, ii.
Djakuns of the Malay Peninsula, their mode of making fire, ii.
Then arose a quarrel between Tangaroa and Maui--but Maui struck down the god, and, thinking he had killed him, carried away the art of making fire.
In the Bowditch or Fakaofa Islands the goddess of fire when conquered taught not only the method of making fire by friction but also what fish were to be cooked and what were to be eaten raw.
This would naturally be the case, for no greater good has touched man's physical life than the discovery of methods of making fire.
I felt as great a delight as Billy, it being plain that we now had the first means of making fire, and if only we could discover anything to serve as tinder we might soon have a fire as large as we pleased.
Sidenote: Failure] This failure made Billy determine again to try his hand at making fire, which we had no time for when building our little hut.
It is not known whether the cave-men invented the method of making fire by drilling before that of striking iron pyrites with flint.
Illustration: Making fire with a strap drill] Strongarm Makes a Great Discovery When the Cave-men had heard Sharpeyes’ story, they went back to their caves.
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