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... expression . Until man had made something of himself he could make little of the world around him . In this process of self - discovery and self - transformation , tools , in the narrow sense , served well as subsidiary instruments ...
... expression . Until man had made something of himself he could make little of the world around him . In this process of self - discovery and self - transformation , tools , in the narrow sense , served well as subsidiary instruments ...
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... expression . Even late documents , like the Egyptian burial texts or the Sumerian and Akkadian epic poems , disclose the same facile magic that first created abstract meanings : set phrases , sometimes quite lengthy ones , will be ...
... expression . Even late documents , like the Egyptian burial texts or the Sumerian and Akkadian epic poems , disclose the same facile magic that first created abstract meanings : set phrases , sometimes quite lengthy ones , will be ...
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... expression must have preceded continent , intelligible speech by untold years . Fortunately , in the long process of forming the complex structure of language , man did not , as many now do in the name of science , turn aside from ...
... expression must have preceded continent , intelligible speech by untold years . Fortunately , in the long process of forming the complex structure of language , man did not , as many now do in the name of science , turn aside from ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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