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... earliest peoples , perhaps even before language was available , had a dim consciousness of the mystery of their own being : a greater incentive to reflection and self - development than any pragmatic effort to adjust to a narrower ...
... earliest peoples , perhaps even before language was available , had a dim consciousness of the mystery of their own being : a greater incentive to reflection and self - development than any pragmatic effort to adjust to a narrower ...
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Lewis Mumford. development ; whereas his earliest attempts at self - exploration , which laid the foundation for symbolic interpretation of every kind , above all language ... earliest organisms first emerged , MAN'S UNCOMMITTED CREATIVITY ...
Lewis Mumford. development ; whereas his earliest attempts at self - exploration , which laid the foundation for symbolic interpretation of every kind , above all language ... earliest organisms first emerged , MAN'S UNCOMMITTED CREATIVITY ...
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... earliest form of any kind of technical order and the earliest manifestation of expressive and communicable meaning . Once the inviolate pattern of ritual was established , it provided the security of reliable order , an order that ...
... earliest form of any kind of technical order and the earliest manifestation of expressive and communicable meaning . Once the inviolate pattern of ritual was established , it provided the security of reliable order , an order that ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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