According to Usener, the lowest level to which we can 
     trace back the origin of religious concepts is that of 
     “momentary gods”, as he calls those images which are 
     born from the need or the specific feeling of a critical 
     moment . . . and still bearing the mark of all its pristine 
     volatility and freedom. But it appears that the new 
     findings which ethnology and comparative religion have 
     put at our disposal during the three decades since the 
     publication of Usener’s work enable us to go back one 
     step further yet.

Civilization gives the barbarian or tribal man an eye for an ear 
and is now at odds with the electronic world.

*     This step takes to a more generalized sense of the 
manifestations of divine potency, away from particular,