b) Write a short paragraph on the topic: "Fire- A good servant but a bad master”
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The services that the element of fire has done to the human race are so great as to be almost incalculable. It may be said that most of the progress in civilization that has been made since the beginning of the world, would have been impossible without its assistance.
It is therefore no wonder that in ancient times divine honours were paid to fire, and that priests were appointed to preserve the precious element from extinction and pollution. There is no historical record of any people that existed without the knowledge of fire, but we can easily imagine how miserable the state of such a people must have been.
In bad weather they must have huddled together in caves like monkeys, to escape from the cold wind and driving rain. Being unable to cook their food, they lived on roots, fruit, and the raw flesh of such animals as they found dead or could manage to kill with sticks and stones.