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Page 139
... possible . Despite seasonal fluctuations in yield due to floods or droughts , the cultivation of grains made man assured of his daily nourish- ment , provided he worked steadily and consecutively , as he had never been certain of the ...
... possible . Despite seasonal fluctuations in yield due to floods or droughts , the cultivation of grains made man assured of his daily nourish- ment , provided he worked steadily and consecutively , as he had never been certain of the ...
Page 139
... possible . Despite seasonal fluctuations in yield due to floods or droughts , the cultivation of grains made man assured of his daily nourish- ment , provided he worked steadily and consecutively , as he had never been certain of the ...
... possible . Despite seasonal fluctuations in yield due to floods or droughts , the cultivation of grains made man assured of his daily nourish- ment , provided he worked steadily and consecutively , as he had never been certain of the ...
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... possible . For the ac- cumulation of mechanical facilities had at last made it possible vastly to enlarge the scope of the megamachine , by progressively replacing the re- calcitrant and uncertain human components with specialized ...
... possible . For the ac- cumulation of mechanical facilities had at last made it possible vastly to enlarge the scope of the megamachine , by progressively replacing the re- calcitrant and uncertain human components with specialized ...
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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