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... give vital clues to earlier cultures . Using the Eskimos ' stone oil lamp , a paleolithic artifact , one can estimate the amount of light available to painters in caves where similar paleolithic lamps were found . From the Eskimos ...
... give vital clues to earlier cultures . Using the Eskimos ' stone oil lamp , a paleolithic artifact , one can estimate the amount of light available to painters in caves where similar paleolithic lamps were found . From the Eskimos ...
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... gives exclusively to quantitative measures and logical abstractions the same magical properties that the primitive mind gave to colorful figures of speech . But we do ill to read back our own highly specialized ' disease of ab ...
... gives exclusively to quantitative measures and logical abstractions the same magical properties that the primitive mind gave to colorful figures of speech . But we do ill to read back our own highly specialized ' disease of ab ...
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... give sufficient weight to the one outstanding weapon produced under these conditions , a weapon that reveals a remarkable capacity for abstract thought . For between thirty thousand and fifteen thousand years ago , paleolithic man ...
... give sufficient weight to the one outstanding weapon produced under these conditions , a weapon that reveals a remarkable capacity for abstract thought . For between thirty thousand and fifteen thousand years ago , paleolithic man ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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