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Page 96
... automatic expansion , reckless inflation , and premature ob- solescence . Language is the great container of culture . Because of the stability of every language , each generation has been able to carry over and pass on a significant ...
... automatic expansion , reckless inflation , and premature ob- solescence . Language is the great container of culture . Because of the stability of every language , each generation has been able to carry over and pass on a significant ...
Page 150
... automatic figures and miniature automatic workshops , magic lantern projectors , gyroscopes , and talking dolls - forerunners of the adult toys of our own age , the tape - recorder , the motion picture camera , and the computer . 28 ...
... automatic figures and miniature automatic workshops , magic lantern projectors , gyroscopes , and talking dolls - forerunners of the adult toys of our own age , the tape - recorder , the motion picture camera , and the computer . 28 ...
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... automatic hydraulic electric power station can transmit the energy of a hundred thousand horses . Plainly many of the mechanical triumphs of our own age were already latent in the earliest megamachines , and what is more , the gains ...
... automatic hydraulic electric power station can transmit the energy of a hundred thousand horses . Plainly many of the mechanical triumphs of our own age were already latent in the earliest megamachines , and what is more , the gains ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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