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Page 105
... improvement within a relatively short distance . If each foot represented a year , these improvements would have to be strung along a distance of roughly ninety miles , of which only the last five or ten miles would denote a period of ...
... improvement within a relatively short distance . If each foot represented a year , these improvements would have to be strung along a distance of roughly ninety miles , of which only the last five or ten miles would denote a period of ...
Page 134
... improved in shape , and attached , however infirmly , to a handle , and a new technique in making other cut- ting ... improvement of plants , was the restrictive lack of adequate tools . Though neolithic cultivation is often referred ...
... improved in shape , and attached , however infirmly , to a handle , and a new technique in making other cut- ting ... improvement of plants , was the restrictive lack of adequate tools . Though neolithic cultivation is often referred ...
Page 137
... improvement . By itself it expresses a definite characteristic of the whole culture . The patient application to a single task , reduced to a single monotonous set of motions , advancing slowly , almost imperceptibly , toward completion ...
... improvement . By itself it expresses a definite characteristic of the whole culture . The patient application to a single task , reduced to a single monotonous set of motions , advancing slowly , almost imperceptibly , toward completion ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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