The home of our ancestors was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of the Nile. In neither bankruptcy nor bastardy did we face our long beginnings. Our line is legitimate. Our ancestry is firmly rooted in the animal world, and to its subtle, antique ways our hearts are yet pledged. Children of all animal kind, we inherited many a social nicety as well as the predator's way.
People are a fraction of the animal world.
Our history is an afterthought, no more, tacked to an infinite calendar. We are not so unique as we should like to believe. And if people in a time of need seek deeper knowledge concerning themselves, then they must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march. We are the products of our history and we can learn about that history from observations of the hard evidence. For the last few thousand years, this hard evidence is often in the form of written documents.