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=1.= Not having, but the measure of desire etc.

“A man’s riches consist of what he can do without.” Socrates

taught this philosophy.

=2.= Who gaining more, seek most, etc.

Explain.

=7.= That twain wherewith Time put the brute to school,

Who was the “brute”? How “put to school”?

=6.= What gage of mastery in fire and tool!—

The control of fire was the first great step in civilization and

someone has said that the invention of the bow and arrow wrought

greater changes in human life than any other invention. By

enabling man to kill at a greater range it increased his supply

of meat and so made it possible to live in larger groups.

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