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Page 78
... 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 organized its immediate impressions ...
... 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 organized its immediate impressions ...
Page 154
... became the subject of thought and art : with the clay vessels that began to appear around the Eighth Millennium B.C. , boiling as well as roasting and baking became feasible — though possibly in the tropics green bamboo vessels preceded ...
... became the subject of thought and art : with the clay vessels that began to appear around the Eighth Millennium B.C. , boiling as well as roasting and baking became feasible — though possibly in the tropics green bamboo vessels preceded ...
Page 278
... became familiar with the abstractions of the counting house : timing , weighing , and measuring , in ever more exact amounts , became the mark of this whole regime . The change was not spontaneous , but the result of deliberate ...
... became familiar with the abstractions of the counting house : timing , weighing , and measuring , in ever more exact amounts , became the mark of this whole regime . The change was not spontaneous , but the result of deliberate ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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