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... already apparent , to a sufficiently perceptive mind , from the earliest chapters on . This widened interpretation of the past is a necessary move toward escaping the dire insufficiencies of current one - generation knowledge . If we do ...
... already apparent , to a sufficiently perceptive mind , from the earliest chapters on . This widened interpretation of the past is a necessary move toward escaping the dire insufficiencies of current one - generation knowledge . If we do ...
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... already visible in the frog . Man's own nature has been constantly fed and formed by the complex activities and interchanges and self - transformations that go on within all organisms ; and neither his nature nor his culture can be ...
... already visible in the frog . Man's own nature has been constantly fed and formed by the complex activities and interchanges and self - transformations that go on within all organisms ; and neither his nature nor his culture can be ...
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... already venerable shrine in Memphis . The document that tells of this event establishes the pre - existence of an all- embracing god , Ptah , whose energies pervade creation . By the time kingship took form as a unifying agent that ...
... already venerable shrine in Memphis . The document that tells of this event establishes the pre - existence of an all- embracing god , Ptah , whose energies pervade creation . By the time kingship took form as a unifying agent that ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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