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... facts , without allowing alternative hypoth- eses . Let me take a case sufficiently remote , I trust , to hurt no one's feelings . From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were found cracked open ...
... facts , without allowing alternative hypoth- eses . Let me take a case sufficiently remote , I trust , to hurt no one's feelings . From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were found cracked open ...
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... fact that the footprints of boys and youths are found in certain paleo- lithic caves proves only that the young were permitted or encouraged to enter , not that they underwent an initiation rite . Even the arrows and marks of wounds on ...
... fact that the footprints of boys and youths are found in certain paleo- lithic caves proves only that the young were permitted or encouraged to enter , not that they underwent an initiation rite . Even the arrows and marks of wounds on ...
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... fact is that most of the components of later complex machines were either invented by the Greeks , between the seventh and the first cen- turies B.C. or were manufactured with the aid of machines and mechanical parts the Greeks first ...
... fact is that most of the components of later complex machines were either invented by the Greeks , between the seventh and the first cen- turies B.C. or were manufactured with the aid of machines and mechanical parts the Greeks first ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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