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Page 64
... mode of significant expression , or the failure to understand the threat to human development in contemporary mechanical mass rituals ? For in the latter , order has been completely transferred to the machine , and no mode is ...
... mode of significant expression , or the failure to understand the threat to human development in contemporary mechanical mass rituals ? For in the latter , order has been completely transferred to the machine , and no mode is ...
Page 80
... mode of life . One linguist , Révész , goes so far as to say that " speech evolved when it was necessary and not before , and that it evolved for purposes for which it was necessary . " But except in the sense that all organic acts ...
... mode of life . One linguist , Révész , goes so far as to say that " speech evolved when it was necessary and not before , and that it evolved for purposes for which it was necessary . " But except in the sense that all organic acts ...
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... mode of life brought about by speciali- zation in hunting big game . In this pursuit a more cooperative strategy ... modes of neolithic agriculture . Probably the nearest modern equivalent to the slaying of big game in paleolithic times ...
... mode of life brought about by speciali- zation in hunting big game . In this pursuit a more cooperative strategy ... modes of neolithic agriculture . Probably the nearest modern equivalent to the slaying of big game in paleolithic times ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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