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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...f Shakespeare had been born and bred on a barren and unvisited rock in the ocean his mighty intellect would have had no outside material to work wit... ...e word of command? Y.M. Not if he were a thorough idiot. O.M. Well, canary birds can learn all that; dogs and el ephants learn all sorts of wonderful... ...ful to say. She was a loyal friend to all animals, and she loved them all, birds, beasts, and everything—even snakes—an inher itance from me. She kne... ... but that is only an accident and not intentional. It is pre historic and extinct. It used to roam the earth in the Old Silurian times, and lay eggs ... ...ies, the fall of thrones, the murder of kings, the wreck of dynasties, the extinction of religions, the birth of new systems of gov ernment; and thei... ...and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. The Indian wars were very desecrating to the country. The Indians pursued their... ...dge of all men twenty five hundred years before the Christian era. Our red Indians have left many records, in the form of pictures, upon our crags and...