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... military machine ? In other words , how was it that war itself became an integral part of ' civilization , ' exalted as the supreme manifestation of all ' sovereign power " ? In its original geographic setting , the labor machine is ...
... military machine ? In other words , how was it that war itself became an integral part of ' civilization , ' exalted as the supreme manifestation of all ' sovereign power " ? In its original geographic setting , the labor machine is ...
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... military machine of great potency , capable of completely destroying massive walls , wrecking dams , razing cities and temples , were greatly enlarged by the genuine tri- umphs of the labor machine . But it is highly doubtful if these ...
... military machine of great potency , capable of completely destroying massive walls , wrecking dams , razing cities and temples , were greatly enlarged by the genuine tri- umphs of the labor machine . But it is highly doubtful if these ...
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... military , 221 ; operation of , [ 16-17 ] ; polarization of , 294 ; positive contributions Melville , Herman , 165 Memory , 31 Memphis , 172 117 , Men , mechanization of ... Military strategy , cious , 222 atro- Military tank , 334 INDEX.
... military , 221 ; operation of , [ 16-17 ] ; polarization of , 294 ; positive contributions Melville , Herman , 165 Memory , 31 Memphis , 172 117 , Men , mechanization of ... Military strategy , cious , 222 atro- Military tank , 334 INDEX.
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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