For when all is said and done our resemblances to ______ are still far more numerous than our differences from him; and what we have in common with him, and deliberately retain as true and useful, we owe to our ______ forefathers who slowly acquired by experience and transmitted to us by inheritance those seemingly fundamental ideas which we are apt to regard as original and intuitive.
Alchemist(s).
Savage(s).
European(s)
Medieval(s).
Native American(s).