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Man is a Tool-using Animal...without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all. — Thomas Carlyle

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Man is a Tool-using Animal...without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle
1834
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Man and animalsToolsNature of man
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Novel
Time
1834
Person
Thomas Carlyle
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Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus, edited by Kerry McSweeney and Peter Sabor. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 5.
Original citation
Carlyle, Thomas. "Sartor Resartus." Fraser's Magazine, Nov. 1833–Aug. 1834. Serial.

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