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... quantity was altogether neglected : this came in with capitalism and long - distance trade . Even in symbolic objects quantity and cheapness might play a part . By reducing the size of a fabricated article , as in a Tanagra figurine ...
... quantity was altogether neglected : this came in with capitalism and long - distance trade . Even in symbolic objects quantity and cheapness might play a part . By reducing the size of a fabricated article , as in a Tanagra figurine ...
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... quantity , often by the greatest artists , available at reasonable prices for use in private homes . Thus not merely esthetic invention , but mechanical invention for the sake of achieving or perfecting the purely esthetic or symbolic ...
... quantity , often by the greatest artists , available at reasonable prices for use in private homes . Thus not merely esthetic invention , but mechanical invention for the sake of achieving or perfecting the purely esthetic or symbolic ...
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... quantities . Even as late as the sixteenth century , when the great Augsburg financier and industrialist , Jacob Fugger ... quantity , the observation and regimentation of time ( " Time is Money ' ) , and the concentration on abstract ...
... quantities . Even as late as the sixteenth century , when the great Augsburg financier and industrialist , Jacob Fugger ... quantity , the observation and regimentation of time ( " Time is Money ' ) , and the concentration on abstract ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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