The Book of Wonders

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Excerpt from The Book of Wonders: Gives Plain and Simple Answers to the Thousands of Everyday Questions That Are Asked and Which All Should Be Able to but Cannot Answer Fully Illustrated With Hundred of Educational Pictures Which Stimulate the Mind and Give a Bird's Eye View of the WonderMan Learned to Light a Fire - he could not cook his food, see at night, or keep warm without a fire, or should it begin with How l\lau Learned to Shoot - he could not protect himself against the beasts of the forest, and, there fore, could not move about, till the soil or obtain food to cook until he knew how to shoot or destroy.What was the vital thing for man to know before he could really become civilized? Some means. Of course, by which the things he learned - the knowl edge he had acquired - could be handed down to those who came after him so that they 'might go on with the intelligence handed down to them. This required some means of recording his knowledge. Man had to learn to write. \vithout writing there could be no Book of Wonders, and the book, then, begirs naturally with the Story of How Man Learned to W'rite.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.