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Page 67
... established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further innovations ...
... established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further innovations ...
Page 176
... establishing great collective enterprises such as the building of cities and canal systems . Significantly , it was ... Established Church , whose archepiscopal sanction in turn is a necessary condition , as Edward VIII discovered , for ...
... establishing great collective enterprises such as the building of cities and canal systems . Significantly , it was ... Established Church , whose archepiscopal sanction in turn is a necessary condition , as Edward VIII discovered , for ...
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... established during the Pyramid Age in the Fertile Crescent continued to be the model for every civilized society , long after the building of these geometric tombs ceased to be fashionable . At the top stood a minority , swollen by ...
... established during the Pyramid Age in the Fertile Crescent continued to be the model for every civilized society , long after the building of these geometric tombs ceased to be fashionable . At the top stood a minority , swollen by ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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achieved activities advances ancient animal association became become beginning body brain called cave century cities civilization collective command complex continued culture divine domestication dream earlier earliest early economy effective effort environment equally established evidence existence experience expression fact forces functions further hand human hunting important improvement increase institution interpretation invention kind king kingship knowledge labor language later least less limited living machine magic man's material means mechanical megamachine merely MICHIGAN military mind myth nature neolithic never noted observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed perhaps period personality physical plants play possible practice present primitive production reason recorded remained ritual seems sexual significant social society speech stone symbolic technical thousand tion took turn universal village whole York