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... achieve speech . This slowness , before language gave continuity and coherence to in- dividual experience by making it ... achieved . Tradition was more precious than invention . To keep even the smallest gain was more important than to ...
... achieve speech . This slowness , before language gave continuity and coherence to in- dividual experience by making it ... achieved . Tradition was more precious than invention . To keep even the smallest gain was more important than to ...
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... achieved only by recurrent occupation for generations in an area small enough to be ransacked in every nook and corner . Thoreau , not Leatherstocking , is the contemporary exemplar of truly primitive man . The kind of detailed ...
... achieved only by recurrent occupation for generations in an area small enough to be ransacked in every nook and corner . Thoreau , not Leatherstocking , is the contemporary exemplar of truly primitive man . The kind of detailed ...
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... achieved , since in regions like the Low Countries , it introduced many improvements in transportation , agriculture , and industry . The technical pace of the previous three thousand years was being quickened without any loss of the ...
... achieved , since in regions like the Low Countries , it introduced many improvements in transportation , agriculture , and industry . The technical pace of the previous three thousand years was being quickened without any loss of the ...
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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