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Had he intended us for bearing burdens, he would have given us Atlantean shoulders, by which we could carry the vast freights of rail-car and steamship, as a porter carries his pack.
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Mann posits that if humans were meant to carry heavy burdens, they would have been equipped with superhuman strength.
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