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Page 33
... human conscious- ness , the mighty cosmos is but a mindless nonentity . Only through human words and symbols , registering human thought , can the universe disclosed by astronomy be rescued from its everlasting vacuity . Without that ...
... human conscious- ness , the mighty cosmos is but a mindless nonentity . Only through human words and symbols , registering human thought , can the universe disclosed by astronomy be rescued from its everlasting vacuity . Without that ...
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... human ex- perience , not just the bleached articulated skeleton of definable ideas . Voluminous oral expression must have preceded continent , intelligible speech by untold years . Fortunately , in the long process of forming the ...
... human ex- perience , not just the bleached articulated skeleton of definable ideas . Voluminous oral expression must have preceded continent , intelligible speech by untold years . Fortunately , in the long process of forming the ...
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... human , 220 ; human , 218 , 221 ; Maya and Aztec , 150 ; mystery of , 149 ; need for victims for , 218 ; rituals of , 222 ; self - induced , 65 ; sym- bolic , 21 ; transference from human , 152 Safety valve , war as , 226 Sailing ships ...
... human , 220 ; human , 218 , 221 ; Maya and Aztec , 150 ; mystery of , 149 ; need for victims for , 218 ; rituals of , 222 ; self - induced , 65 ; sym- bolic , 21 ; transference from human , 152 Safety valve , war as , 226 Sailing ships ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human culture human development hunter hunting images institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York