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... experiences are for them often of more vital importance than the events of daily life . " The ancient peoples who ... experience than meets his eye : that there exists an unseen world , veiled from his senses and his daily experiences ...
... experiences are for them often of more vital importance than the events of daily life . " The ancient peoples who ... experience than meets his eye : that there exists an unseen world , veiled from his senses and his daily experiences ...
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... experience . From this point of view , it was extremely important for his mental development that man , once he had left his original animal niche , had the run of a far larger territory than any other animal : not merely was he ...
... experience . From this point of view , it was extremely important for his mental development that man , once he had left his original animal niche , had the run of a far larger territory than any other animal : not merely was he ...
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... experience and ethical standards , self - consciousness is incomplete and self - knowledge and self - control equally so . " The subjective ordering of experience reached a higher stage in language , in its intensification of ...
... experience and ethical standards , self - consciousness is incomplete and self - knowledge and self - control equally so . " The subjective ordering of experience reached a higher stage in language , in its intensification of ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancestors ancient animal Aurignacian became beginning Benedictine Bertrand Gille brain Bushmen Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization command complex consciousness cosmic creature cultivation domestication dream earliest early man's economy economy of abundance effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods Homo sapiens human development hunter hunting images increase institution interpretation Iron Age king labor language later Leonardo machine Magdalenian magic means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once organization original paintings paleolithic paleolithic art performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice sexual significant social species speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical Technics and Civilization thousand tion tool-making traits village watermill weapons whole words York