startling were the ordinary reader about native societies not 
able to vibrate with a deep sense of affinity for the same, since 
our new electric culture provides our lives again with a tribal 
base. There is available the lyrical testimony of a very Romantic 
biologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in his Phenomenon of Man  
(p.240):

     Now, to the degree that—under the effect of this 
     pressure and thanks to their psychic permeability—the 
     human elements infiltrated more and more into each 
     other, their minds (mysterious coincidence) were mutually 
     stimulated by proximity. And as though dilated upon 
     themselves, they each extended little by little the radius 
     of their influence upon this earth which, by the same 
     token, shrank steadily. What, in fact, do we see 
     happening in the modern paroxysm? It has been stated