Machina Ex Deux

July, 1961

Machina Ex DeuxAbout a Million years Ago, an unprepossessing primate discovered that his fore-limbs could be used for other purposes besides locomotion. Objects like sticks and stones could be grasped, and, once grasped, were useful for killing game, digging up roots, defending or attacking, and a hundred other jobs. On the third planet of the Sun, tools had appeared; and the place would never be the same again.The first users of tools were not men – a fact appreciated only in the last year or t...