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... facts , without allowing alternative hypoth- eses . Let me take a case sufficiently remote , I trust , to hurt no one's feelings . From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were found cracked open ...
... facts , without allowing alternative hypoth- eses . Let me take a case sufficiently remote , I trust , to hurt no one's feelings . From the fact that the thigh bones of Peking Man in the Choukoutien caves were found cracked open ...
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... fact that the rational uses of language were so long delayed , and its application to numbering , sorting , ordering , defining , exactly describing took such a tediously roundabout route . The terms ' meta- phor ' and ' mythology ...
... fact that the rational uses of language were so long delayed , and its application to numbering , sorting , ordering , defining , exactly describing took such a tediously roundabout route . The terms ' meta- phor ' and ' mythology ...
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... fact is that most of the components of later complex machines were either invented by the Greeks , between the seventh and the first cen- turies B.C. or were manufactured with the aid of machines and mechanical parts the Greeks first ...
... fact is that most of the components of later complex machines were either invented by the Greeks , between the seventh and the first cen- turies B.C. or were manufactured with the aid of machines and mechanical parts the Greeks first ...
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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