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... significance . This creativity is its own reason for existence and its own reward . To widen the sphere of significant creativity and prolong its period of development is man's only answer to his conscious- ness of his own death ...
... significance . This creativity is its own reason for existence and its own reward . To widen the sphere of significant creativity and prolong its period of development is man's only answer to his conscious- ness of his own death ...
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... significance that man eventually mastered - though still imperfectly — the art of becoming human . Once language ... significant , more essential to all specifically human activities , than the raw ' outer ' world mutely taken in by ...
... significance that man eventually mastered - though still imperfectly — the art of becoming human . Once language ... significant , more essential to all specifically human activities , than the raw ' outer ' world mutely taken in by ...
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... Significant inno- vations appeared both in long - distance destruction ( cannon ) and long - distance oceanic ... Significantly , the great technical advances of the eighteenth century took place in the earliest neolithic or chalcolithic ...
... Significant inno- vations appeared both in long - distance destruction ( cannon ) and long - distance oceanic ... Significantly , the great technical advances of the eighteenth century took place in the earliest neolithic or chalcolithic ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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