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A HISTORICAL LIE: THE STONE AGE

claim of the tale of "cultural and social evolution." These are nothing
more than materialists' attempts to portray Man as having evolved
from unreasoning beasts and to impose this myth—in which they
believe for philosophical reasons—on science.
That humans could survive by hunting or agriculture does not
show that they were either more backward or more advanced men-
tally. In other words, no society engages in hunting because it is
backward and mentally closer to apes. Engaging in agriculture does
not mean that a society has distanced itself from being primitive. No
society's activities imply that its inhabitants are descended from
other living things. Such activities do not produce, through any al-

That people survive through hunting or
agriculture does not mean that they are
any more advanced or backward in
terms of their mental abilities. In other
words, a society that survives through
hunting does not do so because it is
supposedly closely allied to the apes.
Nor a society's engagement in agricul-
ture means that it has moved a long
way on from apes.

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