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development; whereas his earliest attempts at self-exploration, which laid the
foundation for symbolic interpretation of every kind, above all language, are still
far from exhausted. What is more, it is these inner explorations, which date from ...
development; whereas his earliest attempts at self-exploration, which laid the
foundation for symbolic interpretation of every kind, above all language, are still
far from exhausted. What is more, it is these inner explorations, which date from ...
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Actions still 'speak louder than words,' and the movements and gestures of ritual
were the earliest foreshadowings of human speech. What could not yet be said in
words or shaped in clay or stone, early man first danced or mimed; if he flapped ...
Actions still 'speak louder than words,' and the movements and gestures of ritual
were the earliest foreshadowings of human speech. What could not yet be said in
words or shaped in clay or stone, early man first danced or mimed; if he flapped ...
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Though the village was rooted in the soil, even the earliest villages reached out
for stone or wood or minerals, even as they reached out for mates in marriage,
beyond the usual ambit of daily life; and while technical changes were introduced
...
Though the village was rooted in the soil, even the earliest villages reached out
for stone or wood or minerals, even as they reached out for mates in marriage,
beyond the usual ambit of daily life; and while technical changes were introduced
...
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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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