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Quotation from Sartor Resartus by Thomas Carlyle

“Man is a Tool-using Animal”

Thomas Carlyle (spoken by Diogenes Teufelsdröckh)

Sartor Resartus, Book I, Ch. 5 (The World in Clothes) (Project Gutenberg #1051)

Teufelsdröckh's definition, which treats clothes as one example of the tools by which a weak creature masters the world.

Citation: "Man is a Tool-using Animal" — Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book I, Ch. 5 (The World in Clothes) (Project Gutenberg #1051). (id sartor-resartus-q3)

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