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... language became better able to fulfill its own special function , that of summarizing experience in concepts and ideal structures of increasing complexity . By means of language , each group progressively organized its immediate ...
... language became better able to fulfill its own special function , that of summarizing experience in concepts and ideal structures of increasing complexity . By means of language , each group progressively organized its immediate ...
Page 81
... language of the concrete ' and words of command might often suffice for present purposes , only a comprehensive language structure can recall the past , anticipate the future , or embrace the invisible and the distant . A general ...
... language of the concrete ' and words of command might often suffice for present purposes , only a comprehensive language structure can recall the past , anticipate the future , or embrace the invisible and the distant . A general ...
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... language , in establishing a fully human self , is lost in any reduction of speech to a mere communication system . Languages , for all their wealth of abstract terms , still show the marks of their primeval office : the disciplining of ...
... language , in establishing a fully human self , is lost in any reduction of speech to a mere communication system . Languages , for all their wealth of abstract terms , still show the marks of their primeval office : the disciplining of ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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