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... least in our own day , with its high - tension transformers , its giant chemical retorts , its atomic reactors . In any adequate definition of technics , it should be plain that many in- sects , birds , and mammals had made far more ...
... least in our own day , with its high - tension transformers , its giant chemical retorts , its atomic reactors . In any adequate definition of technics , it should be plain that many in- sects , birds , and mammals had made far more ...
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... least geometric , the least static , of all the arts . Among many primitive peoples , anthropologists have discovered , the tribe feels that it has a heavy responsibility for ensuring , by ritual and verbal spells performed punctually ...
... least geometric , the least static , of all the arts . Among many primitive peoples , anthropologists have discovered , the tribe feels that it has a heavy responsibility for ensuring , by ritual and verbal spells performed punctually ...
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... least to neolithic times , which underlay the higher cultures till the present century . Recommended . Varagnac , André ( editor ) . L'Homme Avant l'Ecriture . Paris : 1959 . A collective effort at synthesis , but with the stress too ...
... least to neolithic times , which underlay the higher cultures till the present century . Recommended . Varagnac , André ( editor ) . L'Homme Avant l'Ecriture . Paris : 1959 . A collective effort at synthesis , but with the stress too ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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