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Page 67
... established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further innovations ...
... established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further innovations ...
Page 272
... established , likewise , the economic value of a methodically ordered life ; and that moral was not lost on contemporary craftsmen and traders . The Venetian merchant , Louis Cornaro , in his classic essay on attaining longevity , took ...
... established , likewise , the economic value of a methodically ordered life ; and that moral was not lost on contemporary craftsmen and traders . The Venetian merchant , Louis Cornaro , in his classic essay on attaining longevity , took ...
Page 280
... established was the older system of values that even into the nineteenth century the ambition to retire from active business in the prime of life with a ' competence ' still seemed to many merchants more attractive than the piling up of ...
... established was the older system of values that even into the nineteenth century the ambition to retire from active business in the prime of life with a ' competence ' still seemed to many merchants more attractive than the piling up of ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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