rediscover fire

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rediscover fire (third-person singular simple present rediscovers fire, present participle rediscovering fire, simple past and past participle rediscovered fire)

(idiomatic) To relearn fundamental concepts, principles or practices that had been previously well known and widely practiced at a prior time in human society.
It was necessary for them to rediscover fire, to relearn the basic laws of economics and rebuild civilization out of the ashes of ruin.