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If the big brain was an organ for maintaining a dynamic balance between the
organism and the environment under unusual challenges and stresses, the mind
became effective as an organizing center for bringing about counter-adaptations
...
If the big brain was an organ for maintaining a dynamic balance between the
organism and the environment under unusual challenges and stresses, the mind
became effective as an organizing center for bringing about counter-adaptations
...
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The mind could not come into existence without the active assistance of the brain,
or indeed, without the whole organism and the environing world. Yet once the
mind created, out of its overflow of images and sounds, a system of detachable ...
The mind could not come into existence without the active assistance of the brain,
or indeed, without the whole organism and the environing world. Yet once the
mind created, out of its overflow of images and sounds, a system of detachable ...
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But during the last five thousand years, the mind has left its mark on buildings,
monuments, books, paintings, towns, cultivated landscapes, and, of late, likewise
upon photographs, phonograph records, and motion pictures. By these means ...
But during the last five thousand years, the mind has left its mark on buildings,
monuments, books, paintings, towns, cultivated landscapes, and, of late, likewise
upon photographs, phonograph records, and motion pictures. By these means ...
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Contents
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 Australopithecines became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation divine 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 Ice Age images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king kingship labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic neolithic culture Oakes Ames observation once organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible potter's wheel practice primitive production rational ritual royal sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York
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| Title | The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development Volume 1 of The Myth of the Machine, Lewis Mumford The Myth of the Machine; Technics and Human Development, Lewis Mumford |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 342 pages |
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