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... planet of rock , air , ocean , and space ships , it would still be a world of nature . " In the light of natural ... planet that the geographer quoted foresees as a pos- sible future , man himself would have lacked all the necessary ...
... planet of rock , air , ocean , and space ships , it would still be a world of nature . " In the light of natural ... planet that the geographer quoted foresees as a pos- sible future , man himself would have lacked all the necessary ...
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... planet by the militant powers of Europe . Campanella , in his utopia , ' The City of the Sun , ' pictured boats which would " go over the waters without rowers or the force of the wind , but by some marvellous contrivance " ; and at the ...
... planet by the militant powers of Europe . Campanella , in his utopia , ' The City of the Sun , ' pictured boats which would " go over the waters without rowers or the force of the wind , but by some marvellous contrivance " ; and at the ...
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... planets and the seasons . The machine that mechanized time did more than regulate the activities of the day : it ... planet . Karl Marx was one of the first to understand the place of the clock as the archetypal model for all later ...
... planets and the seasons . The machine that mechanized time did more than regulate the activities of the day : it ... planet . Karl Marx was one of the first to understand the place of the clock as the archetypal model for all later ...
Contents
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