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Page 98
... achieve speech . This slowness , before language gave continuity and coherence to in- dividual experience by making it ... achieved . Tradition was more precious than invention . To keep even the smallest gain was more important than to ...
... achieve speech . This slowness , before language gave continuity and coherence to in- dividual experience by making it ... achieved . Tradition was more precious than invention . To keep even the smallest gain was more important than to ...
Page 104
... achieved only by recurrent occupation for generations in an area small enough to be ransacked in every nook and corner . Thoreau , not Leatherstocking , is the contemporary exemplar of truly primitive man . The kind of detailed ...
... achieved only by recurrent occupation for generations in an area small enough to be ransacked in every nook and corner . Thoreau , not Leatherstocking , is the contemporary exemplar of truly primitive man . The kind of detailed ...
Page 161
... achieved in current bureaucratic housing projects from Paris and New York to Singapore and Hong Kong . All this may be said on behalf of the archaic neolithic synthesis ; but once seed cultivation was achieved , its greatest days were ...
... achieved in current bureaucratic housing projects from Paris and New York to Singapore and Hong Kong . All this may be said on behalf of the archaic neolithic synthesis ; but once seed cultivation was achieved , its greatest days were ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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