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... turn , produced alterations in the human personality , while still more radical transformations , if this process continue unabated and uncorrected , loom ahead . In terms of the currently accepted picture of the relation of man to ...
... turn , produced alterations in the human personality , while still more radical transformations , if this process continue unabated and uncorrected , loom ahead . In terms of the currently accepted picture of the relation of man to ...
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... turn out to be of no interest . " But he forgot that such a singular find would in itself reveal many matters of extraordinary interest , which would cause a revolutionary rewriting of history : they would disclose that the Romans had ...
... turn out to be of no interest . " But he forgot that such a singular find would in itself reveal many matters of extraordinary interest , which would cause a revolutionary rewriting of history : they would disclose that the Romans had ...
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... turn , the staring success of the enterprise confirmed that power . Such strict , all - embracing order began , one ... turning men into mechanical objects and assembling these objects in a machine . The order that was transmitted from ...
... turn , the staring success of the enterprise confirmed that power . Such strict , all - embracing order began , one ... turning men into mechanical objects and assembling these objects in a machine . The order that was transmitted from ...
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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