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... facts , without allowing alternative hypoth- eses . Let me take a case sufficiently remote , I trust , to hurt no one's feelings . From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were found cracked open ...
... facts , without allowing alternative hypoth- eses . Let me take a case sufficiently remote , I trust , to hurt no one's feelings . From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were found cracked open ...
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... fact that he produced these words made even his most com- monplace activities significant . In evaluating the function and purpose of language , our generation tends to begin at the wrong end : we take its most precious specialized ...
... fact that he produced these words made even his most com- monplace activities significant . In evaluating the function and purpose of language , our generation tends to begin at the wrong end : we take its most precious specialized ...
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... fact is that most of the components of later complex machines were either invented by the Greeks , between the seventh and the first cen- turies B.C. or were manufactured with the aid of machines and mechanical parts the Greeks first ...
... fact is that most of the components of later complex machines were either invented by the Greeks , between the seventh and the first cen- turies B.C. or were manufactured with the aid of machines and mechanical parts the Greeks first ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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