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... CONSCIOUSNESS At some stage , suddenly or gradually , man must have awakened from the complacent routines that characterize other species , escaping from the long night of instinctual groping and fumbling , with its slow , purely or ...
... CONSCIOUSNESS At some stage , suddenly or gradually , man must have awakened from the complacent routines that characterize other species , escaping from the long night of instinctual groping and fumbling , with its slow , purely or ...
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... consciousness in a single being , the hugest star counts for less than a cretinous dwarf . Physicists now estimate the age of the earth as between four and five billion years ; and the earliest possible evidence of life comes about two ...
... consciousness in a single being , the hugest star counts for less than a cretinous dwarf . Physicists now estimate the age of the earth as between four and five billion years ; and the earliest possible evidence of life comes about two ...
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... consciousness that the universe becomes visible , and should that light disappear , only nothingness would remain . Except on the lighted stage of human conscious- ness , the mighty cosmos is but a mindless nonentity . Only through ...
... consciousness that the universe becomes visible , and should that light disappear , only nothingness would remain . Except on the lighted stage of human conscious- ness , the mighty cosmos is but a mindless nonentity . Only through ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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