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... earlier , it shows that the division of labor and specializa- tion of functions necessary for efficient mechanical operation had already taken place . This development had begun at least three dynasties earlier : not by accident with ...
... earlier , it shows that the division of labor and specializa- tion of functions necessary for efficient mechanical operation had already taken place . This development had begun at least three dynasties earlier : not by accident with ...
Page 201
... earlier , it shows that the division of labor and specializa- tion of functions necessary for efficient mechanical operation had already taken place . This development had begun at least three dynasties earlier : not by accident with ...
... earlier , it shows that the division of labor and specializa- tion of functions necessary for efficient mechanical operation had already taken place . This development had begun at least three dynasties earlier : not by accident with ...
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... earlier date . In this way the original practices of the megamachine began to pervade even the more humane institutions derived from an earlier economy . Both kinds of technics had their virtues and their disadvantages . Demo- cratic ...
... earlier date . In this way the original practices of the megamachine began to pervade even the more humane institutions derived from an earlier economy . Both kinds of technics had their virtues and their disadvantages . Demo- cratic ...
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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