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Let's go to a time and place so distant that no one knows when or where
it was, a time and place whose importance is as infinite as its
obscurity. The moment we are seeking is the one during which a single
individual, or a small group of individuals, did something so unusual
that it helped free their ilk forever from the shackles of the
environment and genetics -- grabbing destiny from the tree of nature and
making it human. This extraordinary coup against the unknown was the
simple taming of fire, the stealing of light and heat from a cryptic,
tyrannical universe, transforming it into a matter of personal choice.
No subsequent human event would be more important yet the names and
descriptions of the suspects are still unknown.
On the first day of my freshman anthropology class, the professor drew
an invisible evolutionary time line on the wall of the lecture hall. As
we twisted in our seats the eras, periods, and epochs of musical name
and mystical significance boldly circumscribed the room. Finally we came
back to where the professor stood and when there was nearly no place
further to go, he announced that this was the beginnings of us. We were
only inches from the fire maker. - Sam Smith
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Let's go to a time and place so distant that no one knows when or where
it was, a time and place whose importance is as infinite as its
obscurity. The moment we are seeking is the one during which a single
individual, or a small group of individuals, did something so unusual
that it helped free their ilk forever from the shackles of the
environment and genetics -- grabbing destiny from the tree of nature and
making it human. This extraordinary coup against the unknown was the
simple taming of fire, the stealing of light and heat from a cryptic,
tyrannical universe, transforming it into a matter of personal choice.
No subsequent human event would be more important yet the names and
descriptions of the suspects are still unknown.
On the first day of my freshman anthropology class, the professor drew
an invisible evolutionary time line on the wall of the lecture hall. As
we twisted in our seats the eras, periods, and epochs of musical name
and mystical significance boldly circumscribed the room. Finally we came
back to where the professor stood and when there was nearly no place
further to go, he announced that this was the beginnings of us. We were
only inches from the fire maker. - Sam Smith
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