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Page 155
... result everywhere was a great burgeoning of life accompanied , one must suppose , by a sense of well - being and security . With a plentiful supply of grain for bread and beer , with the possibilities of storage in bins and barns and ...
... result everywhere was a great burgeoning of life accompanied , one must suppose , by a sense of well - being and security . With a plentiful supply of grain for bread and beer , with the possibilities of storage in bins and barns and ...
Page 271
... result of the technological advance first pro- moted by monasticism in the pursuit of a holy life the " impossible " con- ditions for the abolition of slavery laid down by Aristotle in a famous pas- sage of the ' Politics ' had at last ...
... result of the technological advance first pro- moted by monasticism in the pursuit of a holy life the " impossible " con- ditions for the abolition of slavery laid down by Aristotle in a famous pas- sage of the ' Politics ' had at last ...
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... result that was perhaps even more important : for almost at a stroke , the cheap and rapid production of books broke ... results of this democratization was that knowledge itself , as contrasted with legend , dog- matic tradition , or ...
... result that was perhaps even more important : for almost at a stroke , the cheap and rapid production of books broke ... results of this democratization was that knowledge itself , as contrasted with legend , dog- matic tradition , or ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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