What made man superior, in a general way, to all other animals?

Many improvements were made in man that other animals did not have, but the three leading ones were:

(1) Man was designed to stand up straight and walk and run from a perpendicular angle.

(2) Man was designed with a better mental system than other animals.

(3) Man was designed with hands instead of hoofs or claws.

The hands of man, working in conjunction with a superior mental system, became his most valuable instruments of development.

Hands were used to fashion tools for both his defense and offense.

Hands were used to make artificial covering for his body which made the use of feathers, scales or hair unnecessary to keep his body warm.

Hands were used to draw figures and leave records of the progress he made for succeeding generations to be guided by.

By the use of his hands man developed his brain through the accumulation and registration of practical experience.

By the use of his hands man learned how to make fire by friction of different substances.

But the most far-reaching invention of man, made through the use of his hands, was the knife.

Without the knife man could never have made the tools and machinery that he now possesses.

So when the menorgs designed and constructed an animal with hands that could be used to draw figures, fashion tools and make fires, it not only helped him to develop reasoning faculties with the accumulation of knowledge but it gave to him the power to subjugate all other animals on earth.

Man first learned to count with his fingers and then with the addition of his toes.

Ten was the limit of man’s counting at the start because he had no more than ten digits upon his hands to count.

So, man started his arithmetic with ten numbers and then kept adding and multiplying them by ten.

Adding ten to ten made twenty. Then ten more made thirty and so on up to one hundred. Ten hundreds made one thousand; one thousand thousands made a million; one thousand millions made a billion, etc.

Now, the university student may talk glibly about equations and theorems and the higher mathematical problems, but there would have been no such calculations by earthly animals if some primitive bi-ped had not started to count by the use of his fingers.

One other major invention by the menorgs that had much to do with giving to man his superior powers, are his vocal chords.

Through the use of these superior instruments man was made capable of producing a greater variety of sounds than his predecessors were able to produce and thereby developed articulated speech with which to record his thoughts with an assortment of words known as language.

So with a thoughtful mind to do the planning and with vocal chords to explain and command and with nimble fingers to do the building, man soon outclassed the rest of the animal kingdom on earth.

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