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... association , that shape and character constitute its meaning to other higher organisms that encounter it . A lion says ' lion ' by its own presence far more emphatically than the word ' lion ' even if shouted : and the lion's roar , an ...
... association , that shape and character constitute its meaning to other higher organisms that encounter it . A lion says ' lion ' by its own presence far more emphatically than the word ' lion ' even if shouted : and the lion's roar , an ...
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... associations of ' festal play ' and religious rite into the richly structured world of definable meanings and ... association with ritual , promoted the first flowering of language . Matter - of- fact prose appears in early texts ...
... associations of ' festal play ' and religious rite into the richly structured world of definable meanings and ... association with ritual , promoted the first flowering of language . Matter - of- fact prose appears in early texts ...
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Lewis Mumford. intimate association that fostered domestication , came into existence : now based on an abstract impersonal order : counting ... association with older organic vitalities — with an even more THE CULT OF KINGSHIP 173.
Lewis Mumford. intimate association that fostered domestication , came into existence : now based on an abstract impersonal order : counting ... association with older organic vitalities — with an even more THE CULT OF KINGSHIP 173.
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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