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... reason , show little aptitude in using tools and still less in making them : so if tool - making were what counted , they could not yet be identified as human . In early man we have reason to suspect the same kind of facility and the ...
... reason , show little aptitude in using tools and still less in making them : so if tool - making were what counted , they could not yet be identified as human . In early man we have reason to suspect the same kind of facility and the ...
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... reason for over - rating the importance of tools and machines is that man's most significant early inventions , in ritual , social organization , morals , and language , left no material remains , while stone tools can be associated ...
... reason for over - rating the importance of tools and machines is that man's most significant early inventions , in ritual , social organization , morals , and language , left no material remains , while stone tools can be associated ...
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... reason , archaic soci- eties distrusted innovators and inventors as heartily as Philip II of Spain , who classed them , not without reason , as heretics . Even today that danger is still with us ; for ungoverned creativity in science ...
... reason , archaic soci- eties distrusted innovators and inventors as heartily as Philip II of Spain , who classed them , not without reason , as heretics . Even today that danger is still with us ; for ungoverned creativity in science ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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