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... forces that would , in the end , succumb to the scientific method , anything like the larger conscious- ness of cosmic forces that is associated with religion , was treated as negligible . That early man may have scanned the sky , and ...
... forces that would , in the end , succumb to the scientific method , anything like the larger conscious- ness of cosmic forces that is associated with religion , was treated as negligible . That early man may have scanned the sky , and ...
Page 119
... forces that man would make the necessary efforts and sacrifices for esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls ...
... forces that man would make the necessary efforts and sacrifices for esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls ...
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... forces that later took concrete form ; and no one described the consequences of such forces more incisively than Leonardo , even in the act of denying their possibility . Should the claim of the necromancers be established , Leonardo ...
... forces that later took concrete form ; and no one described the consequences of such forces more incisively than Leonardo , even in the act of denying their possibility . Should the claim of the necromancers be established , Leonardo ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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