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... functions and purposes quite different from those they had originally served . Probably the first major displacement was the transformation of the quadruped's fore - limbs from specialized organs of locomotion to all - purpose tools for ...
... functions and purposes quite different from those they had originally served . Probably the first major displacement was the transformation of the quadruped's fore - limbs from specialized organs of locomotion to all - purpose tools for ...
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... functions of language remained as important in the formation of a culture as the function of communication : if nothing else , they prevented a flattening out of human potentiality through mechanization . Hence one of the first efforts ...
... functions of language remained as important in the formation of a culture as the function of communication : if nothing else , they prevented a flattening out of human potentiality through mechanization . Hence one of the first efforts ...
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... functions they serve . But without this original emphasis on the organs of continuity , first provided by stone itself , then by neolithic domesticity , the higher functions of culture could not have developed . As work begins to ...
... functions they serve . But without this original emphasis on the organs of continuity , first provided by stone itself , then by neolithic domesticity , the higher functions of culture could not have developed . As work begins to ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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