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... environment itself: partly this has been effected, as already noted, by re-enforcing conformity with tangible ... environment, human and natural — an environment full of difficulties, temptations, hard choices, challenges, lovely ...
... environment itself: partly this has been effected, as already noted, by re-enforcing conformity with tangible ... environment, human and natural — an environment full of difficulties, temptations, hard choices, challenges, lovely ...
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... environment, the infant retains an illusion of omnipotence: for he has only to cry to have his wishes fulfilled. By bawling loudly he gets an immediate response from the environment: a face reassuringly appears, a hand strokes him, a ...
... environment, the infant retains an illusion of omnipotence: for he has only to cry to have his wishes fulfilled. By bawling loudly he gets an immediate response from the environment: a face reassuringly appears, a hand strokes him, a ...
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... environment; and even in that environment he was more aware of the edibility of plants and the activities of birds and animals than he was of purely physical manifestations of nature, except when they occurred violently, as in storms ...
... environment; and even in that environment he was more aware of the edibility of plants and the activities of birds and animals than he was of purely physical manifestations of nature, except when they occurred violently, as in storms ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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