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of man's basic nature which over-rate the part that tools once played — and
machines now play — in human development. I shall suggest that not only was
Karl Marx in error in giving the material instruments of production the central
place and ...
of man's basic nature which over-rate the part that tools once played — and
machines now play — in human development. I shall suggest that not only was
Karl Marx in error in giving the material instruments of production the central
place and ...
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animal attachments; and nothing could demonstrate this better, I would add, than
those primitive ceremonies in which he played at being another kind of animal.
Long before he had achieved the power to transform the natural environment, ...
animal attachments; and nothing could demonstrate this better, I would add, than
those primitive ceremonies in which he played at being another kind of animal.
Long before he had achieved the power to transform the natural environment, ...
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Only belatedly has it dawned on a few scholars that primitive man did not look at
the world in this way; and that what is a primary motive for us played only a
secondary role, if any at all, in his life. In reconstructing the process of
domestication, ...
Only belatedly has it dawned on a few scholars that primitive man did not look at
the world in this way; and that what is a primary motive for us played only a
secondary role, if any at all, in his life. In reconstructing the process of
domestication, ...
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian Australopithecines became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation divine domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human development hunter hunting Ice Age images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king kingship labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic neolithic culture Oakes Ames observation once organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible potter's wheel practice primitive production rational ritual royal sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York
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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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