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... man's capacity to combine a wide variety of animal propensities into an emergent cultural entity : a human ... early man we have reason to suspect the same kind of facility and the same ineptitude . When we seek for proof of man's ...
... man's capacity to combine a wide variety of animal propensities into an emergent cultural entity : a human ... early man we have reason to suspect the same kind of facility and the same ineptitude . When we seek for proof of man's ...
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... man was originally a dreaming animal , it seems likely that he was also a disturbed one ; and the source of his worst fears was his own hyper - active psyche . Man's early use of the opium poppy and other illusion - producing or ...
... man was originally a dreaming animal , it seems likely that he was also a disturbed one ; and the source of his worst fears was his own hyper - active psyche . Man's early use of the opium poppy and other illusion - producing or ...
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Lewis Mumford. and habits of early man . The aboriginal creature they present as man , Homo faber , Man the Tool - Maker , is a late arrival . Before him , even were one to overlook or deny the special contribution of speech , stands Man ...
Lewis Mumford. and habits of early man . The aboriginal creature they present as man , Homo faber , Man the Tool - Maker , is a late arrival . Before him , even were one to overlook or deny the special contribution of speech , stands Man ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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