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... rhythms , countless forms of energy modulations , existing at large in the environment , some of which are benign , some destructive . We are like little fortresses which by their own internal rhythm pre- vent disruption by outer rhythms ...
... rhythms , countless forms of energy modulations , existing at large in the environment , some of which are benign , some destructive . We are like little fortresses which by their own internal rhythm pre- vent disruption by outer rhythms ...
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... rhythm , a dynamic pattern in the world which he also senses in an isomorphic form within himself . To the rhythms and cadences of sound about him , he makes a re - echoing response through his own limbs and his own vocalizations , not ...
... rhythm , a dynamic pattern in the world which he also senses in an isomorphic form within himself . To the rhythms and cadences of sound about him , he makes a re - echoing response through his own limbs and his own vocalizations , not ...
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... rhythms or processes which he sees fit to call natural law . He can fulfill himself , of course , by the principle of emergence -by complicating nature far more than it has ever been compli- cated before . Just as the brain of man , for ...
... rhythms or processes which he sees fit to call natural law . He can fulfill himself , of course , by the principle of emergence -by complicating nature far more than it has ever been compli- cated before . Just as the brain of man , for ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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