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... institutions , and altering the traditional conception of both human limita- tions and technical possibilities . Our predecessors mistakenly coupled their particular mode of mechan- ical progress with an unjustifiable sense of ...
... institutions , and altering the traditional conception of both human limita- tions and technical possibilities . Our predecessors mistakenly coupled their particular mode of mechan- ical progress with an unjustifiable sense of ...
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... institutional controls and physical compulsions that had never existed before , and these controls rested upon an ideology and a myth which perhaps had their faint begin- nings ... institutions derived from kingship 168 KINGS AS PRIME MOVERS.
... institutional controls and physical compulsions that had never existed before , and these controls rested upon an ideology and a myth which perhaps had their faint begin- nings ... institutions derived from kingship 168 KINGS AS PRIME MOVERS.
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... institution . The chief non - human species that practice war , with organized armies engaging in deadly combat , are certain varieties of ant . Those social insects some sixty million years ago had invented all the major institutions ...
... institution . The chief non - human species that practice war , with organized armies engaging in deadly combat , are certain varieties of ant . Those social insects some sixty million years ago had invented all the major institutions ...
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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