New Book by Michael Denton, Fire-Maker, Is the Perfect Companion to Tom Wolfe's Kingdom of Speech

Fire-making and spoken language are the two artifacts of human culture that, more than any other, have made civilization possible. Charles Darwin himself recognized this, calling fire "Probably the greatest [discovery], excepting language, ever made by man."

Speech, as Tom Wolfe explains in his brief, wonderful book The Kingdom of Speech, makes thought possible -- abstract thought in particular, as Michael Egnor reminds us. Fire, as Discovery Institute biologist Michael Denton shows in any...