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Excerpt from Every-Day Science, Vol. 9: Ingenuity and Luxury Illustrated
The evolutionist assures us that the time was when man was provided with a natural, heat-conserving covering of hair; as also there was a time when our remote ancestor did not attempt to stray beyond the tropics. In this stage of his development man doubt less neither felt the need, nor conceived the idea, of artificial clothing. It was only, we may suppose, when the wandering impulse - based probably upon the over populating of his old environment - led him gradu ally to seek new territories away from the Equator, that the new experience of changing seasons brought to the growing intelligence of our primitive ancestor the idea of artificial protection from the weather. That idea once grasped and put into execution, and combined with the kindred idea of producing warmth with an artificial fire, gave man the key that unlocked the hitherto closed doors of the North Temperate Zone. Provided with these ideas of conserving the heat of the bodily machine - though as yet far enough from understanding the real nature of his discovery -man entered upon the difficult but alluring pathway to the conquest of the world.
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