When he found that flint would chip easily, he must have rushed to his tribe and enthusiastically tried to teach his fellow tribesmen how to
make axes in the shape they desired instead of spending months searching for accidental pieces of stone of just the right shape.
The chances are, he was stoned out of camp. Indulging in a further flight of fancy, it is not difficult to imagine that he finally
managed to convince another fellow that his technique worked and that the two of them tied down a third with a piece of vine
and forced him to watch them chip a flint ax from a rough stone. Finally, after convincing fifteen or twenty tribesmen by
forceful demonstration. the followers of the new technique declared war on the rest of the tribe and, winning, forced the tribe to agree by decree.
L. RON HUBBARD
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