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... esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls of various caves : those abstract images may have been a by ...
... esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls of various caves : those abstract images may have been a by ...
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... esthetic and symbolic terms , it is our present culture that has become painfully unin- ventive , ever since the handicrafts and the folk - arts that went with them lost their lifeblood in the nineteenth century . The end products in ...
... esthetic and symbolic terms , it is our present culture that has become painfully unin- ventive , ever since the handicrafts and the folk - arts that went with them lost their lifeblood in the nineteenth century . The end products in ...
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... esthetic invention , but mechanical invention for the sake of achieving or perfecting the purely esthetic or symbolic results , characterized a large part of pre - automated production . This contribution has been under - rated , even ...
... esthetic invention , but mechanical invention for the sake of achieving or perfecting the purely esthetic or symbolic results , characterized a large part of pre - automated production . This contribution has been under - rated , even ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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