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Page 98
... achieved , those gaps may have occurred all too often ; and the need to avoid such setbacks may well account for the anxiety exhibited by all cultures down to our own time not to lose what the Ancestors had achieved . Tradition was more ...
... achieved , those gaps may have occurred all too often ; and the need to avoid such setbacks may well account for the anxiety exhibited by all cultures down to our own time not to lose what the Ancestors had achieved . Tradition was more ...
Page 104
... achieved only by recurrent occupation for generations in an area small enough to be ransacked in every nook and corner . Thoreau , not Leatherstocking , is the contemporary exemplar of truly primitive man . The kind of detailed ...
... achieved only by recurrent occupation for generations in an area small enough to be ransacked in every nook and corner . Thoreau , not Leatherstocking , is the contemporary exemplar of truly primitive man . The kind of detailed ...
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... achieved in current bureaucratic housing projects from Paris and New York to Singapore and Hong Kong . All this may be said on behalf of the archaic neolithic synthesis ; but once seed cultivation was achieved , its greatest days were ...
... achieved in current bureaucratic housing projects from Paris and New York to Singapore and Hong Kong . All this may be said on behalf of the archaic neolithic synthesis ; but once seed cultivation was achieved , its greatest days were ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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