Animals were made for men to catch and skin.

He did not know what men were made for, unless, perhaps, for the factor.
As he grew older he modified these concepts, but the process was a continual source of naive apprehension and wonderment.

It was not until he became a man and had wandered through half the cities of the States that this expression of childish wonder passed out of his eyes and left them wholly keen and alert.

At his boy's first contact with the cities, while he revised his synthesis of things, he also generalized afresh.

People who lived in cities were effeminate.