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Page 131
... Cities , ' let me add parenthetically , I pointed out that every culture can be separated into four main components , which I then called dominants and recessives , mutations and survivals . Today , to get rid of this inappropriate ...
... Cities , ' let me add parenthetically , I pointed out that every culture can be separated into four main components , which I then called dominants and recessives , mutations and survivals . Today , to get rid of this inappropriate ...
Page 208
... cities that arose were deliberately designed as a simulacrum of Heaven . Never before had so much energy been available for magnificent permanent public works . Soon cities set on man - made mounds rose forty feet above the flood , with ...
... cities that arose were deliberately designed as a simulacrum of Heaven . Never before had so much energy been available for magnificent permanent public works . Soon cities set on man - made mounds rose forty feet above the flood , with ...
Page 279
... cities resorted to armed force in order to destroy rival economic power in other cities and to establish a completer economic monopoly . These conflicts were more costly , destructive , and ultimately even more futile than those between ...
... cities resorted to armed force in order to destroy rival economic power in other cities and to establish a completer economic monopoly . These conflicts were more costly , destructive , and ultimately even more futile than those between ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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