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... merely thought , and man was there . " In these observations lies a truth essential once more for modern man to grasp : ' minding ' is still more im- portant than making . Now the immediate efficacy of speech in affecting human behavior ...
... merely thought , and man was there . " In these observations lies a truth essential once more for modern man to grasp : ' minding ' is still more im- portant than making . Now the immediate efficacy of speech in affecting human behavior ...
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... merely gave a new dignity to woman , no longer merely a drudging camp - follower of the hunter , committed to the dirty work of separating and chewing the guts for thread , and scraping and tanning the skins : it filtered through the ...
... merely gave a new dignity to woman , no longer merely a drudging camp - follower of the hunter , committed to the dirty work of separating and chewing the guts for thread , and scraping and tanning the skins : it filtered through the ...
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... merely laid down a fresh basis for association in craft and trade , but they restored to work the esthetic and moral values , conditioned by religion , that governed the rest of their life . They , too , were autonomous corporate bodies ...
... merely laid down a fresh basis for association in craft and trade , but they restored to work the esthetic and moral values , conditioned by religion , that governed the rest of their life . They , too , were autonomous corporate bodies ...
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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