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... human development . I shall suggest that not only was Karl Marx in error in giving the material instruments of production the central place and directive function in human development , but that even the seemingly benign interpretation ...
... human development . I shall suggest that not only was Karl Marx in error in giving the material instruments of production the central place and directive function in human development , but that even the seemingly benign interpretation ...
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... human mind , which now ranges between invisible particles and equally mysterious retreating galaxies . There seems a likelihood that the earliest peoples , perhaps even before language was available , had a dim consciousness of the ...
... human mind , which now ranges between invisible particles and equally mysterious retreating galaxies . There seems a likelihood that the earliest peoples , perhaps even before language was available , had a dim consciousness of the ...
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... human ex- perience , not just the bleached articulated skeleton of definable ideas . Voluminous oral expression must have preceded continent , intelligible speech by untold years . Fortunately , in the long process of forming the ...
... human ex- perience , not just the bleached articulated skeleton of definable ideas . Voluminous oral expression must have preceded continent , intelligible speech by untold years . Fortunately , in the long process of forming the ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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