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... earth , which produces food out of nothing - or rather out of its mysterious bowels . The Australian aborigines have an expression about the sun's rays having intercourse with the earth . Very early man seems to have isolated the ...
... earth , which produces food out of nothing - or rather out of its mysterious bowels . The Australian aborigines have an expression about the sun's rays having intercourse with the earth . Very early man seems to have isolated the ...
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... earth , and so on.15 With the universe reflected in his very body , the Hindu thus thought his life had the order of ... earth and so melted sky and earth together in an inextricable unity . By opposing culture to nature in these ways ...
... earth , and so on.15 With the universe reflected in his very body , the Hindu thus thought his life had the order of ... earth and so melted sky and earth together in an inextricable unity . By opposing culture to nature in these ways ...
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... earth . Not only has Faustian man failed to do this , but he is actually ruining the very theater of his own immortality with his own poisonous and madly driven works ; once he had eclipsed the sacred dimension , he had only the earth ...
... earth . Not only has Faustian man failed to do this , but he is actually ruining the very theater of his own immortality with his own poisonous and madly driven works ; once he had eclipsed the sacred dimension , he had only the earth ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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