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Page 80
... demand for a prompt response removes all possibility of elaboration or shading . Nothing more is needed for concerted ... demands the imperative mood , brevity , and obedience ! Yet even for the purposes of organized hunting and foraging ...
... demand for a prompt response removes all possibility of elaboration or shading . Nothing more is needed for concerted ... demands the imperative mood , brevity , and obedience ! Yet even for the purposes of organized hunting and foraging ...
Page 97
... demands a reciprocal relation between producer and consumer , between sayer and listener : an inequality of advantage destroys in some degree the integrity and common value of the product . Unlike any historic economic system , the demand ...
... demands a reciprocal relation between producer and consumer , between sayer and listener : an inequality of advantage destroys in some degree the integrity and common value of the product . Unlike any historic economic system , the demand ...
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... demands direct quotation . " Alas , how many attacks were made upon this raging fiend ; to him every onslaught was as nothing . O wretched folk , for you there availed not the impregnable fortresses , nor the lofty walls of your cities ...
... demands direct quotation . " Alas , how many attacks were made upon this raging fiend ; to him every onslaught was as nothing . O wretched folk , for you there availed not the impregnable fortresses , nor the lofty walls of your cities ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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