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... UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . Pictures 1a , 9a , and 9c are from The Eternal Present by S. Giedion , Bollingen XXXV.6.1 , distributed by Pantheon Books , copyright 1962 by the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art , Washington , D.C. By ...
... UNITED STATES OF AMERICA . Pictures 1a , 9a , and 9c are from The Eternal Present by S. Giedion , Bollingen XXXV.6.1 , distributed by Pantheon Books , copyright 1962 by the Trustees of the National Gallery of Art , Washington , D.C. By ...
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... United States Department of the Interior , National Park Service Photo . ( Bottom ) Siva Temple , Elephanta , c . Eighth century . Cour- tesy of Museum of Fine Arts , Boston . 2-3 : Representations of Life Paleolithic art extends over a.
... United States Department of the Interior , National Park Service Photo . ( Bottom ) Siva Temple , Elephanta , c . Eighth century . Cour- tesy of Museum of Fine Arts , Boston . 2-3 : Representations of Life Paleolithic art extends over a.
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... United States . Capitalism , mining , militarism , and mechanization - along with megalomania - went hand in hand . ( Upper ) Metal- workers ' shop , showing mine ( left ) and forge ( right ) . ( Lower ) Heavy siege . cannon with cannon ...
... United States . Capitalism , mining , militarism , and mechanization - along with megalomania - went hand in hand . ( Upper ) Metal- workers ' shop , showing mine ( left ) and forge ( right ) . ( Lower ) Heavy siege . cannon with cannon ...
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 became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation 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 images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York