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... nineteenth century— the river was the backbone of both transportation and communication ; even the wide ocean was a smaller obstacle to human intercourse than mountain and desert . The great rivers were drainage basins , not only of ...
... nineteenth century— the river was the backbone of both transportation and communication ; even the wide ocean was a smaller obstacle to human intercourse than mountain and desert . The great rivers were drainage basins , not only of ...
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... nineteenth century . The end products in painting and sculpture , at least those most exploitable commercially , are now de- liberately degraded to a level far below the earliest paleolithic carvings . While utilitarian inventions made ...
... nineteenth century . The end products in painting and sculpture , at least those most exploitable commercially , are now de- liberately degraded to a level far below the earliest paleolithic carvings . While utilitarian inventions made ...
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... century the tower clock in the late medieval market- place , which struck the hours , moved into the upper - class home on the mantel shelf , and by the nineteenth century , reduced to the size of a watch it became part of the human ...
... century the tower clock in the late medieval market- place , which struck the hours , moved into the upper - class home on the mantel shelf , and by the nineteenth century , reduced to the size of a watch it became part of the human ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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