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THE style of this little book will appeal to children. The language is simple without being babyish. Man's development is traced from the time when, realising the “opposition of the thumb,” he threw his first stone, down to his use of a flying machine. Not unnaturally, perhaps, Miss Reynolds, in the first part of the book especially, gives great prominence to woman's part in the civilising process. We are told, for instance, “woman was the first harvester,” “the first miller,” “the first baker,” “the first salt maker,” “the first furrier,” and so on.
How Man Conquered Nature.
By Minnie J. Reynolds. Pp. v + 249. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914.) Price 1s. 8d. net.
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How Man Conquered Nature . Nature 93, 505 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093505b0
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