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... effective communication . If speech is not acquired before the fourth year , it usually cannot , except in the crudest form , be acquired later , as we know from both deaf - mutes and a few at- tested examples of wild children ; and ...
... effective communication . If speech is not acquired before the fourth year , it usually cannot , except in the crudest form , be acquired later , as we know from both deaf - mutes and a few at- tested examples of wild children ; and ...
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... effective means of ensuring the practice of self - control . Such moral discipline , established as habit before it ... effective taboos . If Western man could establish an inviolate taboo against random extermina- tion , our society ...
... effective means of ensuring the practice of self - control . Such moral discipline , established as habit before it ... effective taboos . If Western man could establish an inviolate taboo against random extermina- tion , our society ...
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... effective , this kind of knowledge must remain a secret priestly monopoly . If everyone had equal access to the sources of knowledge and to the system of interpretation , no one would believe in their infallibility , since their errors ...
... effective , this kind of knowledge must remain a secret priestly monopoly . If everyone had equal access to the sources of knowledge and to the system of interpretation , no one would believe in their infallibility , since their errors ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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