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Page 33
... further widened and lengthened . When at last it emerges into recorded history , organic duration reverses the mechanical , externalized time that is measured by calendars and clocks . Not how long you live , but how much you have lived ...
... further widened and lengthened . When at last it emerges into recorded history , organic duration reverses the mechanical , externalized time that is measured by calendars and clocks . Not how long you live , but how much you have lived ...
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... further variety . The maintenance of that variety has been one of the conditions of human prosperity ; and though much of it is superfluous for man's mere survival , that very super- fluity has been an incentive to his questing mind ...
... further variety . The maintenance of that variety has been one of the conditions of human prosperity ; and though much of it is superfluous for man's mere survival , that very super- fluity has been an incentive to his questing mind ...
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... further demands upon technical ingenuity , as in the series of textile inventions , starting historically with the Damascus weavers , going on through the tapestries of the Middle Ages , and finally in the elaborate ornamental patterns ...
... further demands upon technical ingenuity , as in the series of textile inventions , starting historically with the Damascus weavers , going on through the tapestries of the Middle Ages , and finally in the elaborate ornamental patterns ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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