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description. Now let's get to the reading.

Tonight, we're continuing our series of returns to some of your favorites, with a short history of the world, by H.G. Wells, published by the Macmillan and

company New York, 1922. Let's pick up where we left off. 22.

Let's pick up where we left off.

Chapter 12. Primitive Thought. And now let us indulge in a very interesting speculation.

How did it feel to be a man in those early days of the human adventure.

How did men think and what did they think?

In those remote days of hunting and wandering 400 centuries ago before seed time and harvest

began.

Those were days long before the written record of any human impressions,

and we are left almost entirely to inference and guesswork in our answers to these questions.

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