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"But in those early times men needed great physical strength and long life
to bring the world into subjection, and until that was done they could
give little attention to the cultivation of the finer qualities of their
incipient manhood. They were handicapped by the fact that the lower
animals had had the earth to themselves a few million years, more or less,
and no puny race could ever have driven them to the wall.
"At length, when the conflict was well nigh over, with victory in sight,
men had abandoned the struggle and were using all their fierce strength in
fighting each other. This had been going on so long and with such deadly
results that it seemed as if the race must be exterminated unless some
superior power could step in from the outside and prevent it.
"We can easily understand that there was no such thing as science then.
Men considered the sun, for example, only as a very useful thing which
brought them light with which they could see their foe, and the moon as a
mysterious object sent to make the night a little less dark.


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