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Page 167
... authority , as interpreters of cosmic influences and their human consequences . That skill was not so prone as magic to be confounded by incorrigible events . The orderly cosmos thus disclosed satisfied one of man's deepest needs ...
... authority , as interpreters of cosmic influences and their human consequences . That skill was not so prone as magic to be confounded by incorrigible events . The orderly cosmos thus disclosed satisfied one of man's deepest needs ...
Page 170
... authority , derived from a god or a group of gods , to make kingship prevail throughout a large society . Arms and armed men , specialists in homicide , were essential ; but force alone was not enough . Even before the written record ...
... authority , derived from a god or a group of gods , to make kingship prevail throughout a large society . Arms and armed men , specialists in homicide , were essential ; but force alone was not enough . Even before the written record ...
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... authority in these great valleys ; and kingship , for lack of more rational cooperative authority , met that need . Though neolithic agriculture had produced a hitherto unheard of abundance of food , this very affluence bred new ...
... authority in these great valleys ; and kingship , for lack of more rational cooperative authority , met that need . Though neolithic agriculture had produced a hitherto unheard of abundance of food , this very affluence bred new ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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