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Page 115
... actually paying off . But between the bow and the next visible machines , such as the potter's wheel , something like ten or twenty thousand years seems to have elapsed . Meanwhile , the improvement of tools and the fabrication of ...
... actually paying off . But between the bow and the next visible machines , such as the potter's wheel , something like ten or twenty thousand years seems to have elapsed . Meanwhile , the improvement of tools and the fabrication of ...
Page 216
... ( actually , queenship ) , military conquest , the division of labor , the segregation of functions and castes , to say nothing of the domestication of other species and even the beginnings of agriculture . Civilized man's chief ...
... ( actually , queenship ) , military conquest , the division of labor , the segregation of functions and castes , to say nothing of the domestication of other species and even the beginnings of agriculture . Civilized man's chief ...
Page 240
... actually shortened life . With the ' advance ' of civiliza- tion , this system of brutalized toil , on the prison - model of the mine and the galley , was eventually carried over into the more commonplace tasks of daily life . Traced ...
... actually shortened life . With the ' advance ' of civiliza- tion , this system of brutalized toil , on the prison - model of the mine and the galley , was eventually carried over into the more commonplace tasks of daily life . Traced ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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