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... organizations . This fact accounts not alone for the miraculous survival of the Jews through endless centuries of ... organization , based on power alone , had disintegrated . The Synagogue had inner fortitude and persistence that ...
... organizations . This fact accounts not alone for the miraculous survival of the Jews through endless centuries of ... organization , based on power alone , had disintegrated . The Synagogue had inner fortitude and persistence that ...
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... organization . But as soon as large numbers are involved , democracy must either succumb to external control and centralized direction , or embark on the difficult task of delegating authority to a cooperative organization . The first ...
... organization . But as soon as large numbers are involved , democracy must either succumb to external control and centralized direction , or embark on the difficult task of delegating authority to a cooperative organization . The first ...
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... organization of a landless and increasingly traditionless proletariat took place , compulsive methods made their way even into the processes of handicraft and progressively ' mechanized ' them - mechanized , that is , in the human sense ...
... organization of a landless and increasingly traditionless proletariat took place , compulsive methods made their way even into the processes of handicraft and progressively ' mechanized ' them - mechanized , that is , in the human sense ...
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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