magic of total involvement. As the audience for the magic 
games and plays became more individualistic, the role of art 
and ritual shifted from the cosmic to the humanly 
psychological, as in Greek drama. Even the ritual became more 
verbal and less mimetic or dancelike. Finally, the verbal 
narrative from Homer and Ovid became a romantic literary 
substitute for the corporate liturgy and group participation. 
Much of the scholarly effort of the past century in many fields 
has been devoted to a minute reconstruction of the conditions 
of primitive art and ritual, for it has been felt that this course 
offers the key to understanding the mind of primitive man. The 
key to this understanding, however, is also available in our new 
electric technology that is so swiftly and profoundly re-creating 
the conditions and attitudes of primitive tribal man in 
ourselves.