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Page 192
... method of passing messages through a series of intermediate functionaries until they reached the smallest unit . Exact reproduction of the message and absolute compliance were both essential . This grand problem may well have been first ...
... method of passing messages through a series of intermediate functionaries until they reached the smallest unit . Exact reproduction of the message and absolute compliance were both essential . This grand problem may well have been first ...
Page 280
... method of conditioning used successfully by animal trainers to ensure obedience to orders , and to secure the performance of difficult feats . And whereas kingship had em- phasized punishment , a method that has a definite limit in the ...
... method of conditioning used successfully by animal trainers to ensure obedience to orders , and to secure the performance of difficult feats . And whereas kingship had em- phasized punishment , a method that has a definite limit in the ...
Page 290
... method of inflating wineskins to buoy up camels and soldiers in fording rivers ; and he advocated building unsinkable boats for transporting troops , also after an ancient Assyrian model . In his military preoccupations Leonardo did not ...
... method of inflating wineskins to buoy up camels and soldiers in fording rivers ; and he advocated building unsinkable boats for transporting troops , also after an ancient Assyrian model . In his military preoccupations Leonardo did not ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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