individualized “archetypes” and epiphanies of “momentary 
deities.” It must often have puzzled the scholars and physicists 
of our time that just in the degree to which we penetrate the 
lowest layers of nonliterate awareness we encounter the most 
advanced and sophisticated ideas of twentieth-century art and 
science. To explain that paradox will be an aspect of the 
present book. It is a theme around which much emotion and 
controversy are daily engendered as our world shifts from a 
visual to an auditory orientation in its electric technology. The 
controversy, of course, ignores the cause of the process 
altogether and clings to the “content.” Setting aside the 
effects of the alphabet in creating Euclidean space for the 
Greek sensibility, as well as the simultaneous discovery of 
perspective and chronological narrative, it will be necessary to 
return briefly to the native world with J. C. Carothers. For it is in 
the nonliterate world that it is easiest to discern the operation