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And as these other arts improved, language became better able to fulfill its own
special function, that of summarizing experience in concepts and ideal structures
of increasing complexity. By means of language, each group progressively ...
And as these other arts improved, language became better able to fulfill its own
special function, that of summarizing experience in concepts and ideal structures
of increasing complexity. By means of language, each group progressively ...
Page 219
As the community spread farther and became more closely inter-related, its
internal balance became less stable, and the possibility of damage and hardship,
of starvation and loss of life, became more serious. Under circumstances beyond
...
As the community spread farther and became more closely inter-related, its
internal balance became less stable, and the possibility of damage and hardship,
of starvation and loss of life, became more serious. Under circumstances beyond
...
Page 278
For only when the habit of using mathematical abstractions became ingrained in
a dominant part of the community could the physical sciences resume the place
they had first occupied in the great trading cities of Ionic Greece. Again, this ...
For only when the habit of using mathematical abstractions became ingrained in
a dominant part of the community could the physical sciences resume the place
they had first occupied in the great trading cities of Ionic Greece. Again, this ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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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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