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... megamachine thence becomes ' megatechnics ' as distinguished from the more modest and diversified modes of ... megamachine . Only kings , aided by the discipline of astronomical science and supported by the sanctions of religion , had ...
... megamachine thence becomes ' megatechnics ' as distinguished from the more modest and diversified modes of ... megamachine . Only kings , aided by the discipline of astronomical science and supported by the sanctions of religion , had ...
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... megamachines can be overthrown , that human errors are not immortal . The collapse of the Pyramid Age proved that the megamachine exists on a basis of human beliefs , which may crumble , of human decisions , which may prove fallible ...
... megamachines can be overthrown , that human errors are not immortal . The collapse of the Pyramid Age proved that the megamachine exists on a basis of human beliefs , which may crumble , of human decisions , which may prove fallible ...
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... megamachine operate more effectively as a single unit , the city recognized and emphasized differences . By continued intercourse and cooperation urban leaders and citizens were able to utilize even their conflicts to draw on ...
... megamachine operate more effectively as a single unit , the city recognized and emphasized differences . By continued intercourse and cooperation urban leaders and citizens were able to utilize even their conflicts to draw on ...
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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