We think that groups of between 30 and 40 early men would have settled in an area measuring a hundred square kilometers.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
When I read that the British army had landed thirty-two thousand troops - and I had realized, not very long before, that Philadelphia only had thirty thousand people in it - it practically lifted me out of my chair.
The longer we were in it, the smaller it seemed to get.
Men who have reached and passed 45, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started.
There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.
Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.
Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality.