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... esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls of various caves : those abstract images may have been a by ...
... esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls of various caves : those abstract images may have been a by ...
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... Esthetic invention played fully as large a part as practical needs in man's effort to build a meaningful world ; and because of the demands it made it was also a major stimulus to technics . The greatest technical con- quests of ancient ...
... Esthetic invention played fully as large a part as practical needs in man's effort to build a meaningful world ; and because of the demands it made it was also a major stimulus to technics . The greatest technical con- quests of ancient ...
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... esthetic invention , but mechanical invention for the sake of achieving or perfecting the purely esthetic or symbolic results , characterized a large part of pre - automated production . This contribution has been under - rated , even ...
... esthetic invention , but mechanical invention for the sake of achieving or perfecting the purely esthetic or symbolic results , characterized a large part of pre - automated production . This contribution has been under - rated , even ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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