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Page 155
... result everywhere was a great burgeoning of life accompanied , one must suppose , by a sense of well - being and security . With a plentiful supply of grain for bread and beer , with the possibilities of storage in bins and barns and ...
... result everywhere was a great burgeoning of life accompanied , one must suppose , by a sense of well - being and security . With a plentiful supply of grain for bread and beer , with the possibilities of storage in bins and barns and ...
Page 221
... results that undid the efforts of many lifetimes . This immense ' negative creativity ' constantly nullified the ... result was as irrational as the military means . But to compensate for these insensate explosions of hostility , and ...
... results that undid the efforts of many lifetimes . This immense ' negative creativity ' constantly nullified the ... result was as irrational as the military means . But to compensate for these insensate explosions of hostility , and ...
Page 285
... result that was perhaps even more important : for almost at a stroke , the cheap and rapid production of books broke ... results of this democratization was that knowledge itself , as contrasted with legend , dog- matic tradition , or ...
... result that was perhaps even more important : for almost at a stroke , the cheap and rapid production of books broke ... results of this democratization was that knowledge itself , as contrasted with legend , dog- matic tradition , or ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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