process, and the instant speed of electricity confers the mythic 
dimension on ordinary industrial and social action today. We 
live  mythically but continue to think fragmentarily and on single 
planes.

     Scholars today are acutely aware of a discrepancy 
between their ways of treating subjects and the subject itself. 
Scriptural scholars of both the Old and New Testaments 
frequently say that while their treatment must be linear, the 
subject is not. The subject treats of the relations between God 
and man, and between God and the world, and of the relations 
between man and his neighbor—all these subsist together, and 
act and react upon one another at the same time. The Hebrew 
and Eastern mode of thought tackles problem and resolution, 
at the outset of a discussion, in a way typical of oral societies 
in general. The entire message is then traced and retraced,