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... established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further innovations ...
... established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further innovations ...
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... established during the Pyramid Age in the Fertile Crescent continued to be the model for every civilized society , long after the building of these geometric tombs ceased to be fashionable . At the top stood a minority , swollen by ...
... established during the Pyramid Age in the Fertile Crescent continued to be the model for every civilized society , long after the building of these geometric tombs ceased to be fashionable . At the top stood a minority , swollen by ...
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... established , likewise , the economic value of a methodically ordered life ; and that moral was not lost on contemporary craftsmen and traders . The Venetian merchant , Louis Cornaro , in his classic essay on attaining longevity , took ...
... established , likewise , the economic value of a methodically ordered life ; and that moral was not lost on contemporary craftsmen and traders . The Venetian merchant , Louis Cornaro , in his classic essay on attaining longevity , took ...
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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