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... mean : the beautiful six - sided wax cells which the bee makes are more curious than the rough hut which the chimpanzee - an African monkey - piles together ; and the tiny ants that keep plant - lice and milk them just as we keep cows ...
... mean : the beautiful six - sided wax cells which the bee makes are more curious than the rough hut which the chimpanzee - an African monkey - piles together ; and the tiny ants that keep plant - lice and milk them just as we keep cows ...
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... means one who lives in the woods . In telling you how the earliest men lived I shall want you to go back with me a great many years , even before the histories of different countries begin . For men had to learn a great deal before they ...
... means one who lives in the woods . In telling you how the earliest men lived I shall want you to go back with me a great many years , even before the histories of different countries begin . For men had to learn a great deal before they ...
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... mean the mind , soul , or spirit , which is man . Perhaps we may best call it the thinking part , because the word " man " comes from a very old word which means to think ; therefore a man is SECT . I. ] 7 OF THE WORLD .
... mean the mind , soul , or spirit , which is man . Perhaps we may best call it the thinking part , because the word " man " comes from a very old word which means to think ; therefore a man is SECT . I. ] 7 OF THE WORLD .
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A Simple Account of Man in Early Times Edward Clodd. word which means to think ; therefore a man is one who thinks . When names were given to things , some word was fixed upon which best described the thing . " Brute " comes from a word ...
A Simple Account of Man in Early Times Edward Clodd. word which means to think ; therefore a man is one who thinks . When names were given to things , some word was fixed upon which best described the thing . " Brute " comes from a word ...
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... means a milking- maid . Now , we know by this that they had got beyond the savage state , and that they must have kept goats and cows for the milk which they gave . Thus much a simple word tells us . In the same way , if the English ...
... means a milking- maid . Now , we know by this that they had got beyond the savage state , and that they must have kept goats and cows for the milk which they gave . Thus much a simple word tells us . In the same way , if the English ...
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