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... whether recorded or unrecorded; and the very existence of grammatically
complex and highly articulated languages at the onset of civilization five
thousand years ago, when tools were still extremely primitive, suggests that the
human race ...
... whether recorded or unrecorded; and the very existence of grammatically
complex and highly articulated languages at the onset of civilization five
thousand years ago, when tools were still extremely primitive, suggests that the
human race ...
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All organic existence, not least man's, depends upon the sun and fluctuates with
the sun's flares and spots, and with the earth's cyclical relations to the sun, with
all the changes of the weather and the seasons that accompany these events.
All organic existence, not least man's, depends upon the sun and fluctuates with
the sun's flares and spots, and with the earth's cyclical relations to the sun, with
all the changes of the weather and the seasons that accompany these events.
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Here A. J. Toynbee's belief that the challenge of hard conditions may draw forth
resourceful human responses, which the easier existence of the tropics does not
encourage, seems if anywhere to hold. Part way through this period a new ...
Here A. J. Toynbee's belief that the challenge of hard conditions may draw forth
resourceful human responses, which the easier existence of the tropics does not
encourage, seems if anywhere to hold. Part way through this period a new ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian Australopithecines became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation divine domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human development hunter hunting Ice Age images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king kingship labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic neolithic culture Oakes Ames observation once organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible potter's wheel practice primitive production rational ritual royal sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine; Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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