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Most of the 'weapons' in the primeval period assigned to hunting have a more
plausible function as tools, if we connect them rather with food-gathering and
trapping — activities that may have sufficed for survival in warmer southern
climates ...
Most of the 'weapons' in the primeval period assigned to hunting have a more
plausible function as tools, if we connect them rather with food-gathering and
trapping — activities that may have sufficed for survival in warmer southern
climates ...
Page 114
technical equipment of leather, sinew, fiber, and wood, and in particular has
failed to give sufficient weight to the one outstanding weapon produced under
these conditions, a weapon that reveals a remarkable capacity for abstract
thought.
technical equipment of leather, sinew, fiber, and wood, and in particular has
failed to give sufficient weight to the one outstanding weapon produced under
these conditions, a weapon that reveals a remarkable capacity for abstract
thought.
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unduly inflated over our own technical progress, let us remember that a single
thermonuclear weapon can now easily kill ten million people, and that the minds
now in charge of these weapons have already proved as open to practical ...
unduly inflated over our own technical progress, let us remember that a single
thermonuclear weapon can now easily kill ten million people, and that the minds
now in charge of these weapons have already proved as open to practical ...
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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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