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Since our present over-commitment to technics is in part due to a radical
misinterpretation of the whole course of human development, the first step toward
recovering our balance is to bring under review the main stages of man's
emergence ...
Since our present over-commitment to technics is in part due to a radical
misinterpretation of the whole course of human development, the first step toward
recovering our balance is to bring under review the main stages of man's
emergence ...
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Yet this whole picture of cosmic evolution in terms of quantitative physical
existence, with its immeasurable time and immeasurable space, reads quite
differently if one returns to the center, where the scientific picture has been put
together: the ...
Yet this whole picture of cosmic evolution in terms of quantitative physical
existence, with its immeasurable time and immeasurable space, reads quite
differently if one returns to the center, where the scientific picture has been put
together: the ...
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These indicate that the common appraisal of the whole period as backward in
technology because of slavery reflects only a stereotyped academic judgement,
which unfortunately was crystallized before the contrary evidence came to light.
These indicate that the common appraisal of the whole period as backward in
technology because of slavery reflects only a stereotyped academic judgement,
which unfortunately was crystallized before the contrary evidence came to light.
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Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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| Title | The myth of the machine: technics and human development, Volume 1 Volume 208 of A Harvest Book |
| Author | Lewis Mumford |
| Publisher | Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967 |
| Length | 342 pages |
| Subjects | Civilization Social change Technology and civilization |
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