ABSTRACT
For with the development of technical skill, the needs themselves increase, while the satisfaction of one immediately gives rise to others. Technical ability, however, is relative to its environment. Technical knowledge is marked by the fact that higher and more developed skill improves and augments inferior and rougher forms of it. The plough is inconceivable without the hoe, and the hoe is inconceivable without the digging-stick and the stone-chisel. The student of prehistoric times is denied direct observation of the different methods themselves, and, as regards the kind of skill and the dexterity employed in making an article, he is compelled to rely, to a very large extent, upon guess-work. The greatest respect is paid to a man or woman who shows skill in any kind of work and accomplishes it successfully.
