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Page 61
... sense of guilt . It is related to magic and religious ritual but is more fundamental than any of them . You find it in the infant who wants a story repeated with exactly the same words- it is the most elementary form of mechanization ...
... sense of guilt . It is related to magic and religious ritual but is more fundamental than any of them . You find it in the infant who wants a story repeated with exactly the same words- it is the most elementary form of mechanization ...
Page 65
... sense impressions , or labelling and cataloguing the contents of his environment : he was creating a meaningful world , a whole cosmos , with whose formation and manipulation he achieved a success that for long was denied him in the ...
... sense impressions , or labelling and cataloguing the contents of his environment : he was creating a meaningful world , a whole cosmos , with whose formation and manipulation he achieved a success that for long was denied him in the ...
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... sense of disillusion with what life had to offer is evident in early Mesopotamian literature and was con- stantly reiterated . Vanity of vanity , all is vanity , saith the Preacher . And the sum of that vanity is that " they have sought ...
... sense of disillusion with what life had to offer is evident in early Mesopotamian literature and was con- stantly reiterated . Vanity of vanity , all is vanity , saith the Preacher . And the sum of that vanity is that " they have sought ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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