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... later in the calendar , was transferred to the regimentation of the human components . As against earlier forms of ritu- alized order , this mechanized order was external to man . By a combination of divine command and ruthless military ...
... later in the calendar , was transferred to the regimentation of the human components . As against earlier forms of ritu- alized order , this mechanized order was external to man . By a combination of divine command and ruthless military ...
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... later savages , it would have worked against the survival of the groups practicing it , since the human population was extremely sparse and no one would have been safe against his neighbor's hunger . We know , from later evidence , that ...
... later savages , it would have worked against the survival of the groups practicing it , since the human population was extremely sparse and no one would have been safe against his neighbor's hunger . We know , from later evidence , that ...
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... Later irrigation machines , once called typically Oriental , were in fact , Heichelheim reminds us , invented during the third century B.C. as a con- sequence of Hellenistic progress in mathematics . Later than Archimedes , Ctesibius ...
... Later irrigation machines , once called typically Oriental , were in fact , Heichelheim reminds us , invented during the third century B.C. as a con- sequence of Hellenistic progress in mathematics . Later than Archimedes , Ctesibius ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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