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... necessary for understanding — and eventually redirecting the course of contemporary technics will be already apparent , to a sufficiently perceptive mind , from the earliest chapters on . This widened interpretation of the past is a ...
... necessary for understanding — and eventually redirecting the course of contemporary technics will be already apparent , to a sufficiently perceptive mind , from the earliest chapters on . This widened interpretation of the past is a ...
Page 80
... necessary and not before , and that it evolved for purposes for which it was necessary . " But except in the sense that all organic acts , even when unconscious , are purposeful , this is far from obvious . Those who hold to the ...
... necessary and not before , and that it evolved for purposes for which it was necessary . " But except in the sense that all organic acts , even when unconscious , are purposeful , this is far from obvious . Those who hold to the ...
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... necessary efforts and sacrifices for esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls of various caves : those ...
... necessary efforts and sacrifices for esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls of various caves : those ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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