ABSTRACT
The contribution of fire to freedom consists in that it extends the range of human action, and satisfies many bodily needs. Fire is one of the principal devices which allows man to adjust to new environments and new climates. Round the fire people have to dispose themselves according to age, rank, and authority. Its value in physiological advantages also leads invariably to a system of doctrine, mythology, and rules of respect towards the sacred element. Fire is as a rule protected from pollution, and specific types of fire have become centers of religious cults in primitive as well as highly derived cultures. This chapter surveys the domestic inventory of primitive man, that is, those artifacts which he uses in his daily life, we would always find some objects of wood, skins, or vegetable tissues used as clothing, and some kinds of personal ornamentation.
