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Show H Our basic industries arc winning tho war. H Plowing nnd mining nro more important during j this great conflict than all other activities. Of H courso, both industries aro basic from primitive H times, but often hnvo been moro or less in tho H background. Man began to advanco in living j conditions ns agriculture developed, and what B he took from the caves the first rudiments of H mining aided him in tilling tho soil. Tho moro H oro ho found under the ground, tho better tho H weapons ho was able to fashion, so that the ad- H vanco of civilization can truthfully bo said to H have been based on what man took from the soil H in agriculture and mining. All arts nnd scl-H scl-H ' enccs grow from thoso two branches. |