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Page 107
... single gain . This fore - stage of prospecting and collecting , then , was a prelude to the later arts of ... single source of food , or a single mode of life : he spread over the whole planet and tested life under radically different ...
... single gain . This fore - stage of prospecting and collecting , then , was a prelude to the later arts of ... single source of food , or a single mode of life : he spread over the whole planet and tested life under radically different ...
Page 137
... single task , reduced to a single monotonous set of motions , advancing slowly , almost imperceptibly , toward completion , was far from characteristic of food - collectors or hunt- ers . This new trait became visible first among the ...
... single task , reduced to a single monotonous set of motions , advancing slowly , almost imperceptibly , toward completion , was far from characteristic of food - collectors or hunt- ers . This new trait became visible first among the ...
Page 240
... single occupation , a single workshop , even finally to a single manual operation , which was only a part of a series of such operations that was the worker's lot . Each specialized trade , precisely through its specialization , now ac ...
... single occupation , a single workshop , even finally to a single manual operation , which was only a part of a series of such operations that was the worker's lot . Each specialized trade , precisely through its specialization , now ac ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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