of something near and corporeal.”

     The ecstatic tribal man emanates from every page of 
Spengler. It never occurred to him that the ratio  among 
corporeal things could never be less than rational. That is to 
say, rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion 
among the sensuous components of experience, and is not 
something added  to such sense experience. Subrational beings 
have no means of achieving such a ratio or proportion in their 
sense lives but are wired for fixed wave lengths, as it were, 
having infallibility in their own area of experience. 
Consciousness, complex and subtle, can be impaired or ended 
by a mere stepping-up or dimming-down of any one sense 
intensity, which is the procedure in hypnosis. And the 
intensification of one sense by a new medium can hypnotize an 
entire community. Thus, when he thought he saw modern