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Page 42
... intelligence had risen sufficiently to produce an adequate means of ex- pression or communication above the animal level . The earliest manifesta- tion of culture that laid a basis for this growing intelligence , as I shall attempt to ...
... intelligence had risen sufficiently to produce an adequate means of ex- pression or communication above the animal level . The earliest manifesta- tion of culture that laid a basis for this growing intelligence , as I shall attempt to ...
Page 102
... intelligence involve problem - solving and construction , more or less conditioned by acquired facility with ab- stractions , such as comes only with the use of language . But we overlook another kind of mental effort , common to all ...
... intelligence involve problem - solving and construction , more or less conditioned by acquired facility with ab- stractions , such as comes only with the use of language . But we overlook another kind of mental effort , common to all ...
Page 310
... Intelligence : A Quantitative Study of In- juries to the Brain . Chicago : 1929 . Impeccably ' objective ' in method , but thereby necessarily limited to rat intelligence : the level where brain and mind are one . See Penfield , Wilder ...
... Intelligence : A Quantitative Study of In- juries to the Brain . Chicago : 1929 . Impeccably ' objective ' in method , but thereby necessarily limited to rat intelligence : the level where brain and mind are one . See Penfield , Wilder ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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