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... divine command and ruthless military coercion , a large population was made to endure grinding poverty and forced labor at mind - dulling repetitive tasks in order to insure " Life , Prosperity , and Health " for the divine or semi- divine ...
... divine command and ruthless military coercion , a large population was made to endure grinding poverty and forced labor at mind - dulling repetitive tasks in order to insure " Life , Prosperity , and Health " for the divine or semi- divine ...
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... divine kingship , the demoralizing accompaniments of unlimited power were revealed in both legend and recorded history . But these defects were for long overlaid by the exorbitant hopes the ' invisible machine ' awakened . Though a ...
... divine kingship , the demoralizing accompaniments of unlimited power were revealed in both legend and recorded history . But these defects were for long overlaid by the exorbitant hopes the ' invisible machine ' awakened . Though a ...
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... Divine King . And again , to complete this likeness , this took place under a direct representative of Godhead , the Pope , whose pronouncements on matters of faith and morals , supported by the priesthood , were deemed absolute . But ...
... Divine King . And again , to complete this likeness , this took place under a direct representative of Godhead , the Pope , whose pronouncements on matters of faith and morals , supported by the priesthood , were deemed absolute . But ...
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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