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... significance . This creativity is its own reason for existence and its own reward . To widen the sphere of significant creativity and prolong its period of development is man's only answer to his conscious- ness of his own death ...
... significance . This creativity is its own reason for existence and its own reward . To widen the sphere of significant creativity and prolong its period of development is man's only answer to his conscious- ness of his own death ...
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... significance . Here and here alone man reigned supreme . This symbolic world paralleled , yet sometimes transcended ... significant gestures of much wider range , and at last by complex , ordered speech . In discussing ritual , I have ...
... significance . Here and here alone man reigned supreme . This symbolic world paralleled , yet sometimes transcended ... significant gestures of much wider range , and at last by complex , ordered speech . In discussing ritual , I have ...
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... significance that man eventually mastered - though still imperfectly - the art of becoming human . Once language ... significant , more essential to all specifically human activities , than the raw ' outer ' world mutely taken in by ...
... significance that man eventually mastered - though still imperfectly - the art of becoming human . Once language ... significant , more essential to all specifically human activities , than the raw ' outer ' world mutely taken in by ...
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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