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... creature was a cannibal . Possibly he was . But all we actually know is that the bones of unidentifiable humanoid creatures were cracked open , under special conditions that caused them to be preserved . Apart from marks left by blows ...
... creature was a cannibal . Possibly he was . But all we actually know is that the bones of unidentifiable humanoid creatures were cracked open , under special conditions that caused them to be preserved . Apart from marks left by blows ...
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... creature's specialized organ . But the bow - and - arrow is like nothing whatever in nature : as strange , as peculiarly a product of the human mind as the square root of minus one . This weapon is a pure abstraction translated into ...
... creature's specialized organ . But the bow - and - arrow is like nothing whatever in nature : as strange , as peculiarly a product of the human mind as the square root of minus one . This weapon is a pure abstraction translated into ...
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... creature : such a knowledge as that which , embodied in the drawings illustrating Vesalius , preceded the advances of surgery and medicine in our own age . One finds a similar magic ritual , Sollas pointed out , among the Ojibway ...
... creature : such a knowledge as that which , embodied in the drawings illustrating Vesalius , preceded the advances of surgery and medicine in our own age . One finds a similar magic ritual , Sollas pointed out , among the Ojibway ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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