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... Benedictine Order , instituted by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century , distinguished itself from many similar monastic organizations by imposing a special obligation beyond the usual one of constant prayer , obedience to their ...
... Benedictine Order , instituted by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century , distinguished itself from many similar monastic organizations by imposing a special obligation beyond the usual one of constant prayer , obedience to their ...
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... Benedictine Order , instituted by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century , distinguished itself from many similar monastic organizations by imposing a special obligation beyond the usual one of constant prayer , obedience to their ...
... Benedictine Order , instituted by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century , distinguished itself from many similar monastic organizations by imposing a special obligation beyond the usual one of constant prayer , obedience to their ...
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... Benedictine system demonstrated how efficiently the daily work could be done , when it was collectively planned and ordered , when co- operation replaced coercion , and when the whole man - sexuality aside— was employed : above all ...
... Benedictine system demonstrated how efficiently the daily work could be done , when it was collectively planned and ordered , when co- operation replaced coercion , and when the whole man - sexuality aside— was employed : above all ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York