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Page 243
... production of iron also made it cheaper to equip armies and tempted rulers to embark on more extensive con- quests . Note that the same classical scholar observes that the " population of the Mediterranean area decreased between 201 and ...
... production of iron also made it cheaper to equip armies and tempted rulers to embark on more extensive con- quests . Note that the same classical scholar observes that the " population of the Mediterranean area decreased between 201 and ...
Page 252
... production ; but if it lessened the output and de- creased the circle of possible consumers , it also evened up the account by decreasing the pace of obsolescence and eliminating a large source of waste . When these contradictions ...
... production ; but if it lessened the output and de- creased the circle of possible consumers , it also evened up the account by decreasing the pace of obsolescence and eliminating a large source of waste . When these contradictions ...
Page 255
... production without destroying esthetic sensibility or undermining personal creativity , the flowering of the arts that took place in Europe from the thirteenth century on might have gone on steadily . A genuine polytechnics was in the ...
... production without destroying esthetic sensibility or undermining personal creativity , the flowering of the arts that took place in Europe from the thirteenth century on might have gone on steadily . A genuine polytechnics was in the ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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