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... created , out of its overflow of images and sounds , a system of detachable and storable symbols , it gained a certain independence that other related ani- mals possess only in a minor degree , and that most organisms , to judge by ...
... created , out of its overflow of images and sounds , a system of detachable and storable symbols , it gained a certain independence that other related ani- mals possess only in a minor degree , and that most organisms , to judge by ...
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... created to cope with it . Happily this side of our argument is open to demonstration . Let us con- sider a well - authenticated case of primitive irrationality from South Africa ; for it illustrates the main functional aspects of ...
... created to cope with it . Happily this side of our argument is open to demonstration . Let us con- sider a well - authenticated case of primitive irrationality from South Africa ; for it illustrates the main functional aspects of ...
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... created , the practice of formal repetition , once so necessary , on this hypothesis , for creating meaning , clung to verbal expression . Even late documents , like the Egyptian burial texts or the Sumerian and Akkadian epic poems ...
... created , the practice of formal repetition , once so necessary , on this hypothesis , for creating meaning , clung to verbal expression . Even late documents , like the Egyptian burial texts or the Sumerian and Akkadian epic poems ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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