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... extermination . This survey will bring the reader to the threshold of the modern world : the sixteenth century in Western Europe . Though some of the implications of such a study cannot be fully worked out until the events of the last ...
... extermination . This survey will bring the reader to the threshold of the modern world : the sixteenth century in Western Europe . Though some of the implications of such a study cannot be fully worked out until the events of the last ...
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... extermination have the same psychological status as the messages recorded by the Xosa girl : they are self - induced hallucinations that wantonly defy all the historic precepts of human experience . The fact that these dreams have been ...
... extermination have the same psychological status as the messages recorded by the Xosa girl : they are self - induced hallucinations that wantonly defy all the historic precepts of human experience . The fact that these dreams have been ...
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... Extermination , ' civilized , ' 221 ; human , 70 ; irra- tional instructions for , 58 ; random , 70 ; weap- ons of , 288 Extermination policy , American , 222 Eyesight , medieval im- provement of , 284 Fail - Safe , 70 tion , 124 Fish ...
... Extermination , ' civilized , ' 221 ; human , 70 ; irra- tional instructions for , 58 ; random , 70 ; weap- ons of , 288 Extermination policy , American , 222 Eyesight , medieval im- provement of , 284 Fail - Safe , 70 tion , 124 Fish ...
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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