Welcome aboard James. But, please no more weighty quotes! SWMBO
was looking over my shoulder as I was digesting Mr. Carlyle's
observation when she remarked "well, he got the first part right!"
James Gemmill wrote:
> Fellow Neanderthals, I would like to introduce myself to this august
> body of tool using animals.
>
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> Regards,
> James Gemmill
>
> "Man is a tool using animal. Weak in himself and of small
> stature, he stands on a basis of some half square foot, has to
> straddle out his legs lest the very winds supplant him. Never-
> theless, he can use tools, can devise tools; with these the
> granite mountain melts into light dust before him, seas are
> his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds.
> Nowhere do you find him without tools. Without tools he is
> nothing, with tools he is all."
>
> Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
>
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