physical organs. Our letting-go of ourselves, self-alienations, as 
it were, in order to amplify or increase the power of various 
functions, Baudelaire considered to be flowers of growths of 
evil. The city as amplification of human lusts and sensual 
striving had for him an entire organic and psychic unity.

     Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and enclose 
space and to separate functions, whereas tribal man had freely 
extended the form of his body to include the universe. Acting 
as an organ of the cosmos, tribal man accepted his bodily 
functions as modes of participation in the divine energies. The 
human body in Indian religious thought was ritually related to 
the cosmic image, and this in turn was assimilated into the 
form of house. Housing was an image of both the body and the 
universe for tribal and nonliterate societies. The building of the 
house with its hearth as fire-altar was ritually associated with