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Page 4
... whole story of man the narrow technological rationalism of our own age , and projects into the future a final state in which all the pos- sibilities of human development would come to an end . At that ' omega- point ' nothing would be ...
... whole story of man the narrow technological rationalism of our own age , and projects into the future a final state in which all the pos- sibilities of human development would come to an end . At that ' omega- point ' nothing would be ...
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... whole story reads quite differently . Sentient creatures of any order , even the lowly amoeba , seem to be extremely rare and precious culminations of the whole cosmic process : so much so that the organism of a tiny ant , arrested in ...
... whole story reads quite differently . Sentient creatures of any order , even the lowly amoeba , seem to be extremely rare and precious culminations of the whole cosmic process : so much so that the organism of a tiny ant , arrested in ...
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... whole year must usually pass before an infant can walk : a still longer period before its babblings take form in ... whole over which the mind presides . Without contact with the greater whole - the domain of significance- man feels ...
... whole year must usually pass before an infant can walk : a still longer period before its babblings take form in ... whole over which the mind presides . Without contact with the greater whole - the domain of significance- man feels ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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