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... century batteries of windmills and fleets of sailing ships were witnesses to the new power age . Cotton mills and paper mills in New England and elsewhere were still using water power at the end of the nineteenth century , and even ...
... century batteries of windmills and fleets of sailing ships were witnesses to the new power age . Cotton mills and paper mills in New England and elsewhere were still using water power at the end of the nineteenth century , and even ...
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... nineteenth century . The end products in painting and sculpture , at least those most exploitable commercially , are now de- liberately degraded to a level far below the earliest paleolithic carvings . While utilitarian inventions made ...
... nineteenth century . The end products in painting and sculpture , at least those most exploitable commercially , are now de- liberately degraded to a level far below the earliest paleolithic carvings . While utilitarian inventions made ...
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... century , by the ' in- vention of invention , ' which gave to the machine the primacy that had once belonged to the ... nineteenth century , including the authoritarian communism of Karl Marx , remained on the side of big organizations ...
... century , by the ' in- vention of invention , ' which gave to the machine the primacy that had once belonged to the ... nineteenth century , including the authoritarian communism of Karl Marx , remained on the side of big organizations ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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