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Page 243
... production of iron also made it cheaper to equip armies and tempted rulers to embark on more extensive con- quests . Note that the same classical scholar observes that the " population of the Mediterranean area decreased between 201 and ...
... production of iron also made it cheaper to equip armies and tempted rulers to embark on more extensive con- quests . Note that the same classical scholar observes that the " population of the Mediterranean area decreased between 201 and ...
Page 255
... production without destroying esthetic sensibility or undermining personal creativity , the flowering of the arts that took place in Europe from the thirteenth century on might have gone on steadily . A genuine polytechnics was in the ...
... production without destroying esthetic sensibility or undermining personal creativity , the flowering of the arts that took place in Europe from the thirteenth century on might have gone on steadily . A genuine polytechnics was in the ...
Page 285
... production through molding to a dynamic process , with standardized , interchangeable , replaceable parts . The printing press in its own history typifies the changeover from the mechanization of the worker to the mechanization of the ...
... production through molding to a dynamic process , with standardized , interchangeable , replaceable parts . The printing press in its own history typifies the changeover from the mechanization of the worker to the mechanization of the ...
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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