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... remained misidentified until Stephanos Xanthodides recognized them as the upper disks of potters ' wheels , still in use on Crete . The fact that people in Mesopotamia were still , in the present century , using primitive boats made of ...
... remained misidentified until Stephanos Xanthodides recognized them as the upper disks of potters ' wheels , still in use on Crete . The fact that people in Mesopotamia were still , in the present century , using primitive boats made of ...
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... remained the identifying mark of all sovereign power throughout history . By the time the written records tell of war , all the preliminary events in Egypt and Mesopotamia were buried and unrecorded , though they may in fact have been ...
... remained the identifying mark of all sovereign power throughout history . By the time the written records tell of war , all the preliminary events in Egypt and Mesopotamia were buried and unrecorded , though they may in fact have been ...
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... remained superior to that of the factory worker , even when the latter was far better provided , not only with higher wages , but with more sanitary domestic facilities . Under such conditions , the ' curse of labor ' was no idle ...
... remained superior to that of the factory worker , even when the latter was far better provided , not only with higher wages , but with more sanitary domestic facilities . Under such conditions , the ' curse of labor ' was no idle ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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