Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-09 | Page 3 | Discovery of Fire

Discovery of Fire. When and in what manner Are was discovered Is unknown The art of producing fire appears to have been ono of the very earliest arhlevoments of man No peoplo have1 ever oen found without It. Its uso may have been suggested to man by the lightning, or by the volcano, or by the accidental acciden-tal spark produced by the uso of the atono weapons or utensils, but at any rate Kb use was discovered bo lone ago that the memory of tho race runneth run-neth not to the contrary. Of course, it goes without saying that the use of fire lies at the root of all human progreB. The "iron age," which Is pre-eminently the ago of true civilization, civili-zation, would havo been impossible without firo.