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... interpretation of Teilhard de Chardin reads back into the whole story of man the narrow technological rationalism of our own age , and projects into the future a final state in which all the pos- sibilities of human development would ...
... interpretation of Teilhard de Chardin reads back into the whole story of man the narrow technological rationalism of our own age , and projects into the future a final state in which all the pos- sibilities of human development would ...
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... interpretation than those they have avoided . The result has been a single - factor explanation of man's original devel- opment centered around the stone tool : an oversimplification in method that has now been abandoned elsewhere as ...
... interpretation than those they have avoided . The result has been a single - factor explanation of man's original devel- opment centered around the stone tool : an oversimplification in method that has now been abandoned elsewhere as ...
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... interpretation ? If so , it would lead to a greater paradox : that it was the dream that opened man's eyes to new possibilities in his waking life . 2 : THE DANGER FROM WITHIN Though the dream , if this interpretation is correct , was ...
... interpretation ? If so , it would lead to a greater paradox : that it was the dream that opened man's eyes to new possibilities in his waking life . 2 : THE DANGER FROM WITHIN Though the dream , if this interpretation is correct , was ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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