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Page 80
... necessary and not before , and that it evolved for purposes for which it was necessary . " But except in the sense that all organic acts , even when unconscious , are purposeful , this is far from obvious . Those who hold to the ...
... necessary and not before , and that it evolved for purposes for which it was necessary . " But except in the sense that all organic acts , even when unconscious , are purposeful , this is far from obvious . Those who hold to the ...
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... necessary efforts and sacrifices for esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls of various caves : those ...
... necessary efforts and sacrifices for esthetic per- fection . With these associated acts of dance , ritual , and graphic motion we perhaps have a clue to the mysterious macaroni - like tracings on the walls of various caves : those ...
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... necessary for efficient mechanical operation had already taken place . This development had begun at least three dynasties earlier : not by accident with the building of the great stone pyramid of Djoser ( Zoser ) at Sakkara . John ...
... necessary for efficient mechanical operation had already taken place . This development had begun at least three dynasties earlier : not by accident with the building of the great stone pyramid of Djoser ( Zoser ) at Sakkara . John ...
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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