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... command might often suffice for present purposes , only a comprehensive language structure can recall the past , anticipate the future , or embrace the invisible and the distant . A general improvement in symbolic thinking was what ...
... command might often suffice for present purposes , only a comprehensive language structure can recall the past , anticipate the future , or embrace the invisible and the distant . A general improvement in symbolic thinking was what ...
Page 171
... command , on one hand , and priestly access to astronomical lore and divine guidance . In simpler societies these offices were long represented separately in a war chief and a peace chief . In both cases the magical attributes of ...
... command , on one hand , and priestly access to astronomical lore and divine guidance . In simpler societies these offices were long represented separately in a war chief and a peace chief . In both cases the magical attributes of ...
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... command : in fact the whole landscape was transformed , and bore in its strict boundaries and geometric shapes the impress of both a cosmic order and an inflexible human will . No complex power machines at all comparable to this mecha ...
... command : in fact the whole landscape was transformed , and bore in its strict boundaries and geometric shapes the impress of both a cosmic order and an inflexible human will . No complex power machines at all comparable to this mecha ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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