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... effort . In that effort language itself , by its very successes , happily furnished the extra incentive needed . This linguistic concentration may well explain the relative slowness in fabricating other necessary instruments of culture ...
... effort . In that effort language itself , by its very successes , happily furnished the extra incentive needed . This linguistic concentration may well explain the relative slowness in fabricating other necessary instruments of culture ...
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... effort needed acted as a counter - discipline to the spasmodic life of the hunter : then , too , the intractability of the hard materials made the craftsman come to terms with his environment and realize the impotence of purely ...
... effort needed acted as a counter - discipline to the spasmodic life of the hunter : then , too , the intractability of the hard materials made the craftsman come to terms with his environment and realize the impotence of purely ...
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... effort in order to achieve a distant reward , as opposed to the pleasure principle of obeying momen- tary impulse and expecting an immediate response , with little effort . If paleolithic man had been as indifferent to stone as ...
... effort in order to achieve a distant reward , as opposed to the pleasure principle of obeying momen- tary impulse and expecting an immediate response , with little effort . If paleolithic man had been as indifferent to stone as ...
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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