The Earth's Story: I
THE FIRST DAYS OF MAN
FREDERIC ARNOLD KUMMER
AFTER MOTHER NATURE HAD SENT HEAT AWAY TO MELT UP SOMEOTHER WORLDS, SHE CALLED FOR HIS BROTHER, COLD, AND COLDCAME RUSHING UP, HIS GREAT WHITE WINGS GLITTERING WITH FROST.
The Earth's Story: I
THE FIRST DAYS
OF MAN
AS NARRATED QUITE SIMPLY
FOR YOUNG READERS
BY
FREDERIC ARNOLD KUMMER
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
THE FIRST DAYS OF MAN. II
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Author desires to express his thanks toDr. William K. Gregory, of the American Museumof Natural History, as well as to the otherMuseum authorities, for their courtesy and assistancein the matter of illustrations, and inthe preparation of the text. The book does notpretend, of course, to be a strictly scientific work.Many liberties have been taken, in order to renderthe subject interesting to the youthful mind.Man's early inventions did not come about sosimply as is pictured in the various chapters.But the development of civilisation is a romance,and only by so treating it can we hope to enlistthe interest of the young reader. It is sufficientthat the story rests upon a foundation of fact.
PREFACE FOR PARENTS
Every child, between the ages of five and fifteen,seeks by constant questioning to grasp thefundamental facts upon which our whole fabricof present-day knowledge is based. These facts,painfully gathered by the human race during itsmany centuries of development, must of necessitybe absorbed by the child within the shortspace of some ten or twelve years. It is a prodigioustask, and one in which the growing mindshould be afforded every possible assistance.Two courses are usually adopted by parents; one,to dismiss the child's questi