By Lewis Mumford
This ebook is an try and clarify the forces that experience formed expertise from prehistoric occasions on, and feature more and more been shaping sleek guy. rather than starting with the issues of our personal new release, Lewis Mumford is going again to the origins of human tradition; yet to date from accepting man's upward thrust as due in most cases to his command of instruments and his conquest of nature, he unearths strong grounds for rejecting this view. He demonstrates how instruments themselves didn't and will now not strengthen a ways with no even more major sequence of innovations in ritual, language, and social association.
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Because of the extremely complex structure of man's large brain, uncertainty, unpredictability, counter-adaptability, and creativity (that is, purposeful novelty as distinguished from randomness) are constitutional functions, embedded in man's complex neural structure.
The Pygmies or the Bushmen of Africa, as they were 'discovered' by Europeans more than a century ago, hunted much the same kinds of animals, with much the same weapons as paleolithic man had used in other parts of the 20 THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN world, too, more than fifteen thousand years before; and the Bushmen had even earlier practiced the Magdalenian art of cave painting. Apart from the differences in climatic conditions and human stature, these people were far closer to their remote ancestral cultures than they were to contemporary European man.
These conclusions would be sound, although every trace of positive evidence, other than the hook, had vanished, along with the fisherman's own bones. If one remembered to allow for the possibility that the fishhook might have been transported from a distance, all these deductions would be firm and unshakable. Under similar limitations, with a similar liability to error, anatomists will derive the character of a whole human body from the size and shape of a broken skull and a few teeth-although the ghost of Piltdown Man may rise up to slay them, if they overestimate their powers.