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... institution that can be identified , through a Meso- potamian text , is the urban assembly of all free men . This assembly in turn left the power to deal with current matters in the hands of a group of elders , but in times of emergency ...
... institution that can be identified , through a Meso- potamian text , is the urban assembly of all free men . This assembly in turn left the power to deal with current matters in the hands of a group of elders , but in times of emergency ...
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... institution . The chief non - human species that practice war , with organized armies engaging in deadly combat , are certain varieties of ant . Those social insects some sixty million years ago had invented all the major institutions ...
... institution . The chief non - human species that practice war , with organized armies engaging in deadly combat , are certain varieties of ant . Those social insects some sixty million years ago had invented all the major institutions ...
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... institution , or group . This is not to deny the claims of superior natural endowment , special knowledge , experience , or technical skill : even primitive democratic groups acknowledge some or all of these distinctions . But democracy ...
... institution , or group . This is not to deny the claims of superior natural endowment , special knowledge , experience , or technical skill : even primitive democratic groups acknowledge some or all of these distinctions . But democracy ...
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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 became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation 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 images institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social society species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York