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... modern state , totalitarian or quasi- totalitarian , has cast a fresh light on the earliest similar assemblages . The institution of kingship , as Henri Frankfort , its brilliant modern interpreter , pointed out , is one of the early ...
... modern state , totalitarian or quasi- totalitarian , has cast a fresh light on the earliest similar assemblages . The institution of kingship , as Henri Frankfort , its brilliant modern interpreter , pointed out , is one of the early ...
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... modern Chinese peeled chair , was also an Egyptian invention , while the Etruscans , before the Roman con- quest , had fabricated both chairs and bedsteads of bronze , thousands of years before the iron bedstead had been boastfully ...
... modern Chinese peeled chair , was also an Egyptian invention , while the Etruscans , before the Roman con- quest , had fabricated both chairs and bedsteads of bronze , thousands of years before the iron bedstead had been boastfully ...
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... modern capitalism . But with a tendency to regard latter - day capitalism as a new phenomenon . Weak on those psychological implications and theological per- spectives that seem important in assaying the non - rational factors that ...
... modern capitalism . But with a tendency to regard latter - day capitalism as a new phenomenon . Weak on those psychological implications and theological per- spectives that seem important in assaying the non - rational factors that ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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