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... idea that Marshall McLuhan has put forth in praise of mass communication— that the means are in fact the meaning - indicates a return to ritual at the most infantile , pre - human level . The primal need for order and the achievement of ...
... idea that Marshall McLuhan has put forth in praise of mass communication— that the means are in fact the meaning - indicates a return to ritual at the most infantile , pre - human level . The primal need for order and the achievement of ...
Page 144
... idea of plant domestication to the ce- reals , we should completely forget this vital esthetic contribution , not merely of floral colors and forms , but of a whole variety of delicate tastes and odors so different from the rankness of ...
... idea of plant domestication to the ce- reals , we should completely forget this vital esthetic contribution , not merely of floral colors and forms , but of a whole variety of delicate tastes and odors so different from the rankness of ...
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... idea of abolishing all work , of transferring the skill of the hand without the imagination of the mind to a machine that idea was only a slave's dream , and it revealed a desperate but unimaginative slave's hope ; for it ignored the ...
... idea of abolishing all work , of transferring the skill of the hand without the imagination of the mind to a machine that idea was only a slave's dream , and it revealed a desperate but unimaginative slave's hope ; for it ignored the ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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