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Show Discovery of Fire. When and in what manner Are wai discovered is unknown. The art o! producing fire appears to have bees one of the very earliest achievement! of man. No people have ever beer found without It. Its use may bav been suggested to man by the lightning or by the volcano, or by the acclden tal Bpark produced by the use of th stone weapons or utensils, but at anj rate its use was discovered so Ion? ago that the memory of the race run neth not to the contrary. Of course it goes without saying that the us of fire lies at the root of all humar. progres. The Viron age," which ll pre-eminently the age of true civil! zatlon, would have been Imposslblr without fire. |