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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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