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Except in scraping, tools play no part in this process; but the kind of causal insight
and seasoned observation disclosed by this life-preserving routine shows a high
order of mind. Here the strategy of survival was worked out through close ...
Except in scraping, tools play no part in this process; but the kind of causal insight
and seasoned observation disclosed by this life-preserving routine shows a high
order of mind. Here the strategy of survival was worked out through close ...
Page 136
That was a far more improbable discovery than penicillin: only a spirit of
experiment and a gift for close observation could have made this correlation:
even then it remains astonishing, indeed mysterious, like the folk belief, justified
in the case ...
That was a far more improbable discovery than penicillin: only a spirit of
experiment and a gift for close observation could have made this correlation:
even then it remains astonishing, indeed mysterious, like the folk belief, justified
in the case ...
Page 308
Humboldt's observation that "man is man by virtue of language alone" is both
earlier and sounder than the belief that tool-making shaped his whole
development. Huxley, Julian S. Man Stands Alone. New York: 1927. Returns with
abundant ...
Humboldt's observation that "man is man by virtue of language alone" is both
earlier and sounder than the belief that tool-making shaped his whole
development. Huxley, Julian S. Man Stands Alone. New York: 1927. Returns with
abundant ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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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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