TWO-LEGS’ FUTURE
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Two-Legs still lives.
He will not die as long as the world exists.
He lives now in one country and now in another. No one knows for certain where he is; and there are not many who think of him in the ordinary course of things. Only very few have seen him, but those who have will never forget him either, so old is he and venerable, so clever and radiant his eyes.
He is the same that he always was.
In the beginning, he supplied himself with food and clothes, shelter against the weather and defence against his foes. He built himself huts and houses, killed some of the wild animals and tamed others. He taught his children to sow and reap. Misfortune overtook him and he conquered it. His descendants multiplied and filled the earth.
Since then he conquered the wind and Steam and Electricity. He bound them and gave them to man for his servants. And man trained them, even as he had trained the horse and the ox and the dog.