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... institutions , and altering the traditional conception of both human limita- tions and technical possibilities . Our predecessors mistakenly coupled their particular mode of mechan- ical progress with an unjustifiable sense of ...
... institutions , and altering the traditional conception of both human limita- tions and technical possibilities . Our predecessors mistakenly coupled their particular mode of mechan- ical progress with an unjustifiable sense of ...
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... institutions that first took form under kingship . Its chief features , constant in varying proportions throughout history , are the centralization of political power , the separation of classes , the lifetime division of labor , the ...
... institutions that first took form under kingship . Its chief features , constant in varying proportions throughout history , are the centralization of political power , the separation of classes , the lifetime division of labor , the ...
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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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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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