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The Naval War of 1812, Vol. 1: The History of the United States Navy During the Last War With Great Britain (Classic Reprint)
The Naval War of 1812 Vol 1 The History of the United States Navy During the Last War With Great Britain - Classic Reprint Author:Theodore Roosevelt 1. The first men had no history, They lived a savage life, more backward and helpless than the lowest savages in the world to-day. They had not even fire, or knife, or bow and arrow. In thoughts and acts they were brutelike; and in brain power they were only a little above the beasts about them. Their chief desires were to satisfy hunger, to kee... more »p warm, and to outwit more powerful animals. Through thousands on thousands of years, man has been lifting himself from this earliest savagery to our many-sided civilization.
Civilization is the opposite of savagery. To raise regular food crops, instead of depending upon hunting and fishing or upon nuts and wild rice, was a great step toward civilization. To learn to use oar and sail, to work mines, to build roads and canals, to exchange the products of one region for those of another, to invent tools and machinery - the spinning wheel, the threshing machine, the locomotive, the dynamo - all these things were steps. But civilization includes mo
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