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... facts , without allowing alternative hypoth- eses . Let me take a case sufficiently remote , I trust , to hurt no one's feelings . From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were found cracked open ...
... facts , without allowing alternative hypoth- eses . Let me take a case sufficiently remote , I trust , to hurt no one's feelings . From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were found cracked open ...
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... fact that the concrete experience of every animal including man ' makes sense ' without the intervention of symbols , if the creature is alert and responsive . This Swiftian ' symbolism of things ' has in fact left a deep mark on speech ...
... fact that the concrete experience of every animal including man ' makes sense ' without the intervention of symbols , if the creature is alert and responsive . This Swiftian ' symbolism of things ' has in fact left a deep mark on speech ...
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... fact that certain missing components , necessary to widen the province of the ma- chine , to augment its efficiency , and to make it ultimately acceptable to the workers as well as to the rulers and controllers , were actually supplied ...
... fact that certain missing components , necessary to widen the province of the ma- chine , to augment its efficiency , and to make it ultimately acceptable to the workers as well as to the rulers and controllers , were actually supplied ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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