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Page 41
... immense potentialities . That development in turn brought its own dangers and disabilities . Sometimes , when the cultural complex be- came too elaborately structured , or too firmly fixed on retaining past ac- quisitions , as it ...
... immense potentialities . That development in turn brought its own dangers and disabilities . Sometimes , when the cultural complex be- came too elaborately structured , or too firmly fixed on retaining past ac- quisitions , as it ...
Page 50
... immense storehouse of sounds , images , patterns , in all their prodigality and super- fluity , came to man in his dreams . Through the dream , then , man became conscious of a haunting ' super- natural ' environment : one that no other ...
... immense storehouse of sounds , images , patterns , in all their prodigality and super- fluity , came to man in his dreams . Through the dream , then , man became conscious of a haunting ' super- natural ' environment : one that no other ...
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... immense effort needed to create the complex structures of significance that made it possible for primitive groups to be- come human . No modern technological device surpasses in the articulation of its parts or its functional fitness ...
... immense effort needed to create the complex structures of significance that made it possible for primitive groups to be- come human . No modern technological device surpasses in the articulation of its parts or its functional fitness ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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