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... original animal condition , but freed his best - developed organ , his brain , for other tasks than those of ensuring physical survival . The dominant human trait , central to all other traits , is this capacity for conscious ...
... original animal condition , but freed his best - developed organ , his brain , for other tasks than those of ensuring physical survival . The dominant human trait , central to all other traits , is this capacity for conscious ...
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... original purpose of ritual was to create order and meaning where none existed ; to affirm them when they had been ... original creation of meaning by a repetitive act , and the later erosion or displacement of meaning by mechanical ...
... original purpose of ritual was to create order and meaning where none existed ; to affirm them when they had been ... original creation of meaning by a repetitive act , and the later erosion or displacement of meaning by mechanical ...
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... original feat of language or has given a more adequate reason for the fact that the rational uses of language were so long delayed , and its application to numbering , sorting , ordering , defining , exactly describing took such a ...
... original feat of language or has given a more adequate reason for the fact that the rational uses of language were so long delayed , and its application to numbering , sorting , ordering , defining , exactly describing took such a ...
Contents
PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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