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... technical indifference or incompetence of the Greeks falls fantastically wide of the truth . Anyone who recalls Cellini's account of the difficulty in the casting of his Perseus , a relatively small figure , will have some insight into ...
... technical indifference or incompetence of the Greeks falls fantastically wide of the truth . Anyone who recalls Cellini's account of the difficulty in the casting of his Perseus , a relatively small figure , will have some insight into ...
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... technical stagna- tion , despite Lynn Thorndike's ample documentation to the contrary . Certainly , then , there was an unexplainable backwardness in more than one province where technical improvement was easily conceivable without any ...
... technical stagna- tion , despite Lynn Thorndike's ample documentation to the contrary . Certainly , then , there was an unexplainable backwardness in more than one province where technical improvement was easily conceivable without any ...
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... Technical backwardness , ancient , 243 Technical development , primeval phase of , 101 ; sources of , 72 Technical feats , primitive , 100 Technical ' periods , ' multi- tude of , 22 Technical progress , an- Thermonuclear weapons , 228 ...
... Technical backwardness , ancient , 243 Technical development , primeval phase of , 101 ; sources of , 72 Technical feats , primitive , 100 Technical ' periods , ' multi- tude of , 22 Technical progress , an- Thermonuclear weapons , 228 ...
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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