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... functions and purposes quite different from those they had originally served . Probably the first major displacement was the transformation of the quadruped's fore - limbs from specialized organs of locomotion to all - purpose tools for ...
... functions and purposes quite different from those they had originally served . Probably the first major displacement was the transformation of the quadruped's fore - limbs from specialized organs of locomotion to all - purpose tools for ...
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... functions , indeed , produce their own kind of order and internal balance : the animal instincts are inherently functional and purpose- ful , and so , within their own context , rational : that is , appropriate to the situation and ...
... functions , indeed , produce their own kind of order and internal balance : the animal instincts are inherently functional and purpose- ful , and so , within their own context , rational : that is , appropriate to the situation and ...
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... functions of language remained as important in the formation of a culture as the function of communication : if nothing else , they prevented a flattening out of human potentiality through mechanization . Hence one of the first efforts ...
... functions of language remained as important in the formation of a culture as the function of communication : if nothing else , they prevented a flattening out of human potentiality through mechanization . Hence one of the first efforts ...
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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