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... present interests in making machines and conquering nature . And then in turn he has justified his present concerns by calling his prehistoric self a tool - making animal , and assuming that the material instruments of production ...
... present interests in making machines and conquering nature . And then in turn he has justified his present concerns by calling his prehistoric self a tool - making animal , and assuming that the material instruments of production ...
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... present purposes , only a comprehensive language structure can recall the past , anticipate the future , or embrace the invisible and the distant . A general improvement in symbolic thinking was what possibly gave Homo sapiens the edge ...
... present purposes , only a comprehensive language structure can recall the past , anticipate the future , or embrace the invisible and the distant . A general improvement in symbolic thinking was what possibly gave Homo sapiens the edge ...
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... Present . ' Photograph by Hugo P. Herdig . ( Upper right ) Strong Wind , Ojibway , by George Catlin . U.S. National Museum , courtesy of The Smithsonian Institu- tion . ( Lower ) Abstract signs , sometimes called tectiforms , El ...
... Present . ' Photograph by Hugo P. Herdig . ( Upper right ) Strong Wind , Ojibway , by George Catlin . U.S. National Museum , courtesy of The Smithsonian Institu- tion . ( Lower ) Abstract signs , sometimes called tectiforms , El ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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