The Cave Savage Began To Change Into The Civilized Man Who Built Buildings When The Savage Learned To Keep Things, --to Accumulate Food, To Lay Away, To Store Fuel Skins For Clothing, To Hoard The Shells Which Passed For Money In His Day

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How old is man?

The oldest building on the face of the whole earth is the Sakkarah pyramid in Egypt, built about 6800 years ago. There were human beings on the earth 500, so scientists tell, 000 years ago us. Think of that! In a sealed tomb opened in recent years were found the footprints of men who walked there 3800 years ago! A building that was 2000 years old when Abraham was born! The cave savage began to change into the civilized man who built buildings when the savage learned to keep things, --to accumulate food, to lay away, to store fuel skins for clothing, to hoard the shells which passed for money in his day.

There was no tomorrow for the savage. Until the human race grasped this idea, people were nothing more than animals, less intelligent than the bees or squirrels who do provide for days in the future. He ate shell- fish found on the shore. He ate what he wanted at the moment, and threw the rest away. He killed animals by throwing stones at them. But when the savage began to make stone arrow- heads, he began to keep them, and to give them to his sons when he died. Each generation gave the next one its gains in the way of art, making boats, tilling the soil, or weaving cloth.

The savage father and mother began to accumulate skins and weapons and to pass them on to their children. All that was collected in knowledge or discovery was passed along. The results of the labor of those who lived before us make the world as we see it today. We are inheriting the accumulated knowledge of all the millions who have lived and died and turned to dust during the past thousands and thousands of years! Thrift is not a natural instinct in human beings. Mankind today retains the results of his labor and thought in two ways- -the money he gains he puts into the bank.

It is the outcome of bitter experience- -not our own, but of those, perhaps who lived and died before us, and who have left scarred upon us the livid brand of Nature's inexorable law: --Those who waste will suffer. The ideas and experience he gains he puts into the heads of the youngsters who are growing up. It is the thrift of individuals which makes a nation strong or weak. "So that every thrifty person may be regarded as a public benefactor, and every thriftless person as a public enemy. " "The capitalist is merely a man who does not spend all that is earned by work! '