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... kind of tool could bring about this close relationship with the brain ? The an- swer is almost implied in the question : namely , a kind of tool directly related to the mind , and fabricated out of its own special ' etherealized ...
... kind of tool could bring about this close relationship with the brain ? The an- swer is almost implied in the question : namely , a kind of tool directly related to the mind , and fabricated out of its own special ' etherealized ...
Page 196
... kind of precision that , as Breasted properly emphasized , belongs to the watchmaker's art rather than that of the modern bridge builder or skyscraper constructor . Blocks of stone were set together with seams of considerable length ...
... kind of precision that , as Breasted properly emphasized , belongs to the watchmaker's art rather than that of the modern bridge builder or skyscraper constructor . Blocks of stone were set together with seams of considerable length ...
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... kind of life which reversed the previous scale of values , even that of archaic agricultural society , with its over - emphasis of sexuality , its ex- clusive concern with kinsmen and neighbors ; but even more emphatically they rejected ...
... kind of life which reversed the previous scale of values , even that of archaic agricultural society , with its over - emphasis of sexuality , its ex- clusive concern with kinsmen and neighbors ; but even more emphatically they rejected ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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