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| The Invention or Discovery.  | The Race. | The Inventors.             |
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| Fire                         | Atlantean | Phos, Phur, and Phlox.     |
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| The bow and arrow            | Chippeway | Manaboshu.                 |
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| The use of flint             | "         | "                          |
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| The use of copper            | "         | "                          |
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| The manufacture of bricks    | Atlantean | Autochthon and Technites.  |
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| Agriculture and hunting      | "         | Argos and Agrotes.         |
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| Village life, and the        | "         | Amynos and Magos.          |
| rearing of flocks            |           |                            |
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| The use of salt              | "         | Misor and Sydyk.           |
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| The use of letters           | "         | Taautos, or Taut.          |
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| Navigation                   | "         | The Cabiri, or Corybantes. |
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| The art of music             | Hebrew    | Jubal.                     |
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| Metallurgy, and the use of   | "         | Tubal-cain.                |
| iron                         |           |                            |
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| The syrinx                   | Greek     | Pan.                       |
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| The lyre                     | "         | Hermes.                    |
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We cannot consider all these evidences of the vast antiquity of the great inventions upon which our civilization mainly rests, including the art of writing, which, as I have shown, dates back far beyond the beginning of history; we cannot remember that the origin of all the great food-plants, such as wheat, oats, barley, rye, and maize, is lost in the remote past; and that all the domesticated animals, the horse, the ass, the ox, the sheep, the goat, and the hog had been reduced to subjection to man in ages long previous to written history, without having the conclusion forced upon us irresistibly that beyond Egypt and Greece, beyond Chaldea and China, there existed a mighty civilization, of which these states were but the broken fragments.