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Page 83
... abstract sounds could bring to mind actual people , concrete places and objects , was the fundamental magic property of speech : but there was an even more potent magic in the fact that these same or similar sounds , differently ...
... abstract sounds could bring to mind actual people , concrete places and objects , was the fundamental magic property of speech : but there was an even more potent magic in the fact that these same or similar sounds , differently ...
Page 91
... abstract symbolism , analytic dismemberment , were not possible till the flowers had faded and the petals fallen . In ' The Science of Thought ' Müller put his basic intuition in these words : " It was absolutely impossible to grasp and ...
... abstract symbolism , analytic dismemberment , were not possible till the flowers had faded and the petals fallen . In ' The Science of Thought ' Müller put his basic intuition in these words : " It was absolutely impossible to grasp and ...
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... abstract image of a supernatural being foreshadows some of C. S. Lewis's or Olaf Stapledon's fantasies : an exquisite rendering - realistic even as to the vestigial legs - of the Big Brain ! These forms , often termed ' primitive ...
... abstract image of a supernatural being foreshadows some of C. S. Lewis's or Olaf Stapledon's fantasies : an exquisite rendering - realistic even as to the vestigial legs - of the Big Brain ! These forms , often termed ' primitive ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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