Thought-Culture; or, Practical Mental Training

A being that was brutal, yet king of all other animals original: "brutes"—human in appearance but not yet in reality—emerged. From the highest level of basic awareness original: "simple-consciousness", the fundamental human faculty was born: self-awareness original: "self-consciousness" and its twin, language.

From these abilities and everything that accompanied them, humanity progressed through suffering, hard labor original: "toil", and war; through animalistic behavior original: "bestiality", savagery, and primitive living original: "barbarism"; and through slavery, greed, and effort. Through endless conquests and overwhelming defeats; through unending struggle and ages of aimless, semi-animal original: "semi-brutal" existence, humans survived on berries and roots and by using stones or sticks found by chance.

They lived in deep forests, eating nuts and seeds, or on the shores of waters eating mollusks, shellfish original: "crustaceans", and fish for food. Then came what was perhaps the greatest of human victories: the taming and control original: "domestication and subjugation" of fire. This was followed by the invention and skill of the bow and arrow; the training of animals and the breaking of them for work original: "labor"; and the long learning process which led to farming original: "cultivation of the soil".

Through the use of adobe bricks and the building of houses from them; through the smelting of metals and the slow birth of the arts meaning: industrial crafts and skills which depend on these materials; and through the slow making of