Note 35 — Chapter I · PROMETHEUS, THE MYTHICAL HERO
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For the emphatic view of distinguished anthropologists on the extreme importance of the discovery of fire to primitive man, see W. J. Sollas, Ancient Hunters, pp. 97–98; O. Peschel, Völkerkunde, V. Aufl., 1875, p. 144; while Robert Munro in Prehistoric Problems (London, 1897), p. 102, writes: “The art of fire-making had a greater influence on human civilisation than the modern discovery of electricity.”