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... living organisms . At every meal , we transform ' lifeless ' molecules into living tissue ; and with that trans- formation come sensations , perceptions , feelings , emotions , dreams , bodily responses , proposals , self - directed ...
... living organisms . At every meal , we transform ' lifeless ' molecules into living tissue ; and with that trans- formation come sensations , perceptions , feelings , emotions , dreams , bodily responses , proposals , self - directed ...
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... living or semi - living proto - organisms that were not preserved surely must have come earlier . On that abstract time - scale man's whole existence seems almost too brief and ephemeral to be noted . But to accept this scale would ...
... living or semi - living proto - organisms that were not preserved surely must have come earlier . On that abstract time - scale man's whole existence seems almost too brief and ephemeral to be noted . But to accept this scale would ...
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... living something about life that will forever escape scientific analysis , even after the scientist has reduced to a chemical formula or an electric charge every observable manifestation of the living organism . So , too , only in ...
... living something about life that will forever escape scientific analysis , even after the scientist has reduced to a chemical formula or an electric charge every observable manifestation of the living organism . So , too , only in ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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