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I Call That Brilliant Sequence Of Cultural Peaks The Ascent Of Man.
-Jacob Bronowski
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I Call That Brilliant Sequence Of Cultural
Jacob Bronowski
I Call That Brilliant Sequence Of Cultural Peaks The Ascent Of Man.
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