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... words could be standardized and fixed could individualized meanings be derived from their different combinations and sequences . To manipulate the infinite number of variables opened up by language , words themselves must remain rela ...
... words could be standardized and fixed could individualized meanings be derived from their different combinations and sequences . To manipulate the infinite number of variables opened up by language , words themselves must remain rela ...
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... words . Only if the right word were used in the right order did the spell work . Robert Braidwood notes that a similar standardization can be detected in fairly early paleolithic culture in the shaping of tools . Once a good functional ...
... words . Only if the right word were used in the right order did the spell work . Robert Braidwood notes that a similar standardization can be detected in fairly early paleolithic culture in the shaping of tools . Once a good functional ...
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... Word magic is one of the chief means of attaining power and status in the ' affluent society . ' Since our own age has become acutely conscious of the possible misuses of words through semantic confusion and magical misapplication ...
... Word magic is one of the chief means of attaining power and status in the ' affluent society . ' Since our own age has become acutely conscious of the possible misuses of words through semantic confusion and magical misapplication ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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