the act of creation. This same ritual was even more deeply 
embedded in the building of the ancient cities, their shape and 
process having been deliberately modeled as an act of divine 
praise. The city and the home in the tribal world (as in China 
and India today) can be accepted as iconic embodiments of the 
word , the divine mythos , the universal aspiration. Even in our 
present electric age, many people yearn for this inclusive 
strategy of acquiring significance for their own private and 
isolated beings.

     Literate man, once having accepted an analytic 
technology of fragmentation, is not nearly so accessible to 
cosmic patterns as tribal man. He prefers separateness and 
compartment spaces, rather than the open cosmos. He 
becomes less inclined to accept his body as a model of the 
universe, or to see his house or any other of the media of