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The fact that people in Mesopotamia were still, in the present century, using
primitive boats made of bundles of reeds, like those of their ancestors five
thousand years ago, as J. H. Breasted delightedly pointed out, gives support to
the belief ...
The fact that people in Mesopotamia were still, in the present century, using
primitive boats made of bundles of reeds, like those of their ancestors five
thousand years ago, as J. H. Breasted delightedly pointed out, gives support to
the belief ...
Page 112
The evidences of fire and hunting go back five hundred thousand years: tool-
making perhaps farther. Whatever man's ancestral deficiencies, he was at least
well-seasoned. Many animals found these conditions difficult. Some surmounted
...
The evidences of fire and hunting go back five hundred thousand years: tool-
making perhaps farther. Whatever man's ancestral deficiencies, he was at least
well-seasoned. Many animals found these conditions difficult. Some surmounted
...
Page 113
The same rough shapes that characterized the Acheulian culture persisted for
over two hundred thousand years, while the somewhat improved implements of
the succeeding Levalloisian phase lasted almost equally long: forty times as long
...
The same rough shapes that characterized the Acheulian culture persisted for
over two hundred thousand years, while the somewhat improved implements of
the succeeding Levalloisian phase lasted almost equally long: forty times as long
...
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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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