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Page 33
... further widened and lengthened . When at last it emerges into recorded history , organic duration reverses the mechanical , externalized time that is measured by calendars and clocks . Not how long you live , but how much you have lived ...
... further widened and lengthened . When at last it emerges into recorded history , organic duration reverses the mechanical , externalized time that is measured by calendars and clocks . Not how long you live , but how much you have lived ...
Page 37
... further variety . The maintenance of that variety has been one of the conditions of human prosperity ; and though much of it is superfluous for man's mere survival , that very super- fluity has been an incentive to his questing mind ...
... further variety . The maintenance of that variety has been one of the conditions of human prosperity ; and though much of it is superfluous for man's mere survival , that very super- fluity has been an incentive to his questing mind ...
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... further application of the stamping process to printing had to wait many centuries . As for the immense skill shown by the Greeks in the casting of bronze statues by the ' lost wax ' method - there the sup- posed technical indifference ...
... further application of the stamping process to printing had to wait many centuries . As for the immense skill shown by the Greeks in the casting of bronze statues by the ' lost wax ' method - there the sup- posed technical indifference ...
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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