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Page 14
And then in turn he has justified his present concerns by calling his prehistoric
self a tool-making animal, and assuming that the material instruments of
production dominated all his other activities. As long as the paleoanthropologist
regarded ...
And then in turn he has justified his present concerns by calling his prehistoric
self a tool-making animal, and assuming that the material instruments of
production dominated all his other activities. As long as the paleoanthropologist
regarded ...
Page 31
... so that the organism of a tiny ant, arrested in its development some sixty million
years ago, still embodies in its mental organization and in its autonomous
activities a higher mode of being than the whole earth afforded before life
appeared.
... so that the organism of a tiny ant, arrested in its development some sixty million
years ago, still embodies in its mental organization and in its autonomous
activities a higher mode of being than the whole earth afforded before life
appeared.
Page 210
Most of the creative activities we associate with 'civilization' can be traced back to
this original implosion of social and technical forces. These works created a well-
founded confidence in human powers, different from the illusions and naive ...
Most of the creative activities we associate with 'civilization' can be traced back to
this original implosion of social and technical forces. These works created a well-
founded confidence in human powers, different from the illusions and naive ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian Australopithecines became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation divine domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human development hunter hunting Ice Age images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king kingship labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic neolithic culture Oakes Ames observation once organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible potter's wheel practice primitive production rational ritual royal sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine; Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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