. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . s introduced, and then only inits rudest form. A crooked beam ol 284 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. wood with a crossbar, sharpened at itslower extremity for share and above ar-ranged for a handle, constituted all therewas of the most important industrial im-plement in the world. The other outdoor implements of theHebrew farmer and the
. With the world's people : an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social evolution, and present conditions and promise of the principal families of men : together with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . s introduced, and then only inits rudest form. A crooked beam ol 284 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. wood with a crossbar, sharpened at itslower extremity for share and above ar-ranged for a handle, constituted all therewas of the most important industrial im-plement in the world. The other outdoor implements of theHebrew farmer and the gardener wereof like simplicity and imperfect impie- In some branches of laborthe implements were bet-ter. Such were the prun-ing hooks which the masters of vine- ments and utensils of the He-brevrs. stage of intellectual development are ac-quainted with the lever and its same is true of the wedge. Thenecessary splitting of timber would soonacquaint even barbarians with this de-vice for the application of force. Theinclined plane must have been knownfrom the earliest ages. The wheel andaxle and the pulley come next in orderof discovery, and finally the screw. Itis possible that the wood screw was usedby the Hebrews in some of the practi-. CARRYING HOME THE PLOWS AT EVENING—Draw., H. A, Harper, from a photograph. yards used in the care of their vines andorchards; also the sickle, which seemsto have attained a tolerably perfect and bronze were known and usedin the fabrication of tools, but only to alimited extent. Of the means of apply-ing force in the practical problems oflabor the Hebrews knew but little. Wemay assume that all men in a moderate cal arts. The wine press, however, somuch in use among the people, was con-structed by leverage; and if the screwwas known, its application was limited. These hints at the physical appliancesof a people furnish the clue to much be-sides. Manufactures in the larger sensecan hardly rise above the lev
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