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... objective reality to the billions of years the cosmos supposedly passed through before man appeared , secretly smuggles a human observer into the statement , for it is man's ability to think backwards and forwards that creates and ...
... objective reality to the billions of years the cosmos supposedly passed through before man appeared , secretly smuggles a human observer into the statement , for it is man's ability to think backwards and forwards that creates and ...
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... objective description may in itself be an indication of an unfortunate negative state , with equal dangers of distortion : except for the limited purposes of exact observation , not necessarily a desirable one . Carried into sexual ...
... objective description may in itself be an indication of an unfortunate negative state , with equal dangers of distortion : except for the limited purposes of exact observation , not necessarily a desirable one . Carried into sexual ...
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... objective chaos and recreating it in our own image . " No one else has better described the original feat of language or has given a more adequate reason for the fact that the rational uses of language were so long delayed , and its ...
... objective chaos and recreating it in our own image . " No one else has better described the original feat of language or has given a more adequate reason for the fact that the rational uses of language were so long delayed , and its ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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