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... taken place at more than one point in the universe , even at many points , through creatures that perhaps exploited still other potentialities , or escaped better than man from the arrests and perversions and irrationalities that have ...
... taken place at more than one point in the universe , even at many points , through creatures that perhaps exploited still other potentialities , or escaped better than man from the arrests and perversions and irrationalities that have ...
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... taken fixation and stabilization began to set in . The first successful domestication of cereals could not have taken place in the grasslands or swamps of the Near East . With the existing imple- ments , it was easier to make a clearing ...
... taken fixation and stabilization began to set in . The first successful domestication of cereals could not have taken place in the grasslands or swamps of the Near East . With the existing imple- ments , it was easier to make a clearing ...
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... taken form , kingship had sprung up as a mutation in agricultural communities that were still without any permanent division of labor or any strict separation of castes , with only a minimum of economic differentiation through ...
... taken form , kingship had sprung up as a mutation in agricultural communities that were still without any permanent division of labor or any strict separation of castes , with only a minimum of economic differentiation through ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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