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... association , that shape and character constitute its meaning to other higher organisms that encounter it . A lion says ' lion ' by its own presence far more emphatically than the word ' lion ' even if shouted : and the lion's roar , an ...
... association , that shape and character constitute its meaning to other higher organisms that encounter it . A lion says ' lion ' by its own presence far more emphatically than the word ' lion ' even if shouted : and the lion's roar , an ...
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... associations of ' festal play ' and religious rite into the richly structured world of definable meanings and ... association with ritual , promoted the first flowering of language . Matter - of- fact prose appears in early texts ...
... associations of ' festal play ' and religious rite into the richly structured world of definable meanings and ... association with ritual , promoted the first flowering of language . Matter - of- fact prose appears in early texts ...
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... association with a larger society , or by assimilating institutions filtering down from the higher civilizations . Out of the early neolithic complex a different kind of social organiza- tion arose : no longer dispersed in small units ...
... association with a larger society , or by assimilating institutions filtering down from the higher civilizations . Out of the early neolithic complex a different kind of social organiza- tion arose : no longer dispersed in small units ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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