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Page 37
... further variety . The maintenance of that variety has been one of the conditions of human prosperity ; and though much of it is superfluous for man's mere survival , that very super- fluity has been an incentive to his questing mind ...
... further variety . The maintenance of that variety has been one of the conditions of human prosperity ; and though much of it is superfluous for man's mere survival , that very super- fluity has been an incentive to his questing mind ...
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... further technical significance is the fact that the first use of clay , apart from the hearth itself , is its employment as a material for art , as in the bisons in the Tuc d'Audoubert cave , thousands of years before there is evidence ...
... further technical significance is the fact that the first use of clay , apart from the hearth itself , is its employment as a material for art , as in the bisons in the Tuc d'Audoubert cave , thousands of years before there is evidence ...
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... further application of the stamping process to printing had to wait many centuries . As for the immense skill shown by the Greeks in the casting of bronze statues by the ' lost wax ' method - there the sup- posed technical indifference ...
... further application of the stamping process to printing had to wait many centuries . As for the immense skill shown by the Greeks in the casting of bronze statues by the ' lost wax ' method - there the sup- posed technical indifference ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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