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... lent itself to partial abstraction , as noted in an observation by Back- house in 1843 , quoted by Sollas in ' Ancient Hunters . " " One day we noticed a woman arranging stones ; they were flat , oval THINGS MAKE SENSE 75.
... lent itself to partial abstraction , as noted in an observation by Back- house in 1843 , quoted by Sollas in ' Ancient Hunters . " " One day we noticed a woman arranging stones ; they were flat , oval THINGS MAKE SENSE 75.
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... noted when he pointed out that the slow improvement of ' Chellean ' tools was probably the sign of a failure as yet to achieve speech . This slowness , before language gave continuity and coherence to in- dividual experience by making ...
... noted when he pointed out that the slow improvement of ' Chellean ' tools was probably the sign of a failure as yet to achieve speech . This slowness , before language gave continuity and coherence to in- dividual experience by making ...
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... noted before , there was a change of scale . The habit of ' thinking big ' was introduced with the first human machine ; for a super- human scale in the individual structures magnified the sovereign authority . At the same time it ...
... noted before , there was a change of scale . The habit of ' thinking big ' was introduced with the first human machine ; for a super- human scale in the individual structures magnified the sovereign authority . At the same time it ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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