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Page 31
... whole story reads quite differently . Sentient creatures of any order , even the lowly amoeba , seem to be extremely rare and precious culminations of the whole cosmic process : so much so that the organism of a tiny ant , arrested in ...
... whole story reads quite differently . Sentient creatures of any order , even the lowly amoeba , seem to be extremely rare and precious culminations of the whole cosmic process : so much so that the organism of a tiny ant , arrested in ...
Page 248
... whole period as backward in technology because of slavery reflects only a stereotyped academic judgement , which unfortunately was crystallized be- fore the contrary evidence came to light . Now what applies to the Greeks applies no ...
... whole period as backward in technology because of slavery reflects only a stereotyped academic judgement , which unfortunately was crystallized be- fore the contrary evidence came to light . Now what applies to the Greeks applies no ...
Page 286
... whole day could be laid out and subdivided . In the sixteenth century the tower clock in the late medieval market- place , which struck the hours , moved into the upper - class home on the mantel shelf , and by the nineteenth century ...
... whole day could be laid out and subdivided . In the sixteenth century the tower clock in the late medieval market- place , which struck the hours , moved into the upper - class home on the mantel shelf , and by the nineteenth century ...
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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