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... less than the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . If the only clue to Shakespeare's achievement as a dramatist were his cradle , an Elizabethan mug , his lower jaw , and a few rotted planks from the Globe Theatre , one ...
... less than the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth . If the only clue to Shakespeare's achievement as a dramatist were his cradle , an Elizabethan mug , his lower jaw , and a few rotted planks from the Globe Theatre , one ...
Page 51
... less effortfully , may succumb to . This brings us back to a paradoxical possibility , namely that conscious- ness may have been promoted by the strange disparity between man's inner environment , with its unexpected images and exciting ...
... less effortfully , may succumb to . This brings us back to a paradoxical possibility , namely that conscious- ness may have been promoted by the strange disparity between man's inner environment , with its unexpected images and exciting ...
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... less cultivated but perhaps more fully human , was content to visit the most fiendish tortures upon himself ; and some of these mutilations turned out to be far from futile . What incited man to operate on his own body is hard to fathom ...
... less cultivated but perhaps more fully human , was content to visit the most fiendish tortures upon himself ; and some of these mutilations turned out to be far from futile . What incited man to operate on his own body is hard to fathom ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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