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... advances in every department of cul- ture than his predecessors had been able to make in ten times the span of his existence - if only because the last steps always prove the easiest . The relative rapidity of man's advance , in a ...
... advances in every department of cul- ture than his predecessors had been able to make in ten times the span of his existence - if only because the last steps always prove the easiest . The relative rapidity of man's advance , in a ...
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... advances of the eighteenth century took place in the earliest neolithic or chalcolithic industries , textiles , pottery , metallurgy , canal - building . Large capital investments in the metallurgical ( military ) industries spurred the ...
... advances of the eighteenth century took place in the earliest neolithic or chalcolithic industries , textiles , pottery , metallurgy , canal - building . Large capital investments in the metallurgical ( military ) industries spurred the ...
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... Advance , technological medieval , 271 Advances , Aurignacian and Magdalenian , 33 Affluence , as anxiety breeder , 178 ; early dreams of , 241 ' Affluent society , ' 42 , 96 African Bushmen , 102 African Pygmies , 118 Age of Poetry ...
... Advance , technological medieval , 271 Advances , Aurignacian and Magdalenian , 33 Affluence , as anxiety breeder , 178 ; early dreams of , 241 ' Affluent society , ' 42 , 96 African Bushmen , 102 African Pygmies , 118 Age of Poetry ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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