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In this, the part played by ritual exactitude can hardly be overestimated: The
original purpose of ritual was to create order and meaning where none existed; to
affirm them when they had been achieved; to restore them when they were lost.
In this, the part played by ritual exactitude can hardly be overestimated: The
original purpose of ritual was to create order and meaning where none existed; to
affirm them when they had been achieved; to restore them when they were lost.
Page 91
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 application to numbering, sorting, ordering, defining, exactly ...
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 application to numbering, sorting, ordering, defining, exactly ...
Page 106
Such a life would help account for early man's opportunity, if my original
hypothesis is sound, for giving so much of his attention to ritual and language. "
Historical tradition," the philosopher Whitehead observed, "is handed down by
the direct ...
Such a life would help account for early man's opportunity, if my original
hypothesis is sound, for giving so much of his attention to ritual and language. "
Historical tradition," the philosopher Whitehead observed, "is handed down by
the direct ...
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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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