relevance or importance, either in the “sacred” or “profane” as 
presented by Eliade or any other “irrational” mystic of our time, 
we would not belittle the merely cultural power of the 
nonliterate and the literate forms of life to shape the 
perceptions and biases of the entire human community. The 
miseries of conflict between the Eastern and Roman churches, 
for example, are a merely obvious instance of the type of 
opposition between the oral and the visual cultures, having 
nothing to do with the Faith.

     I would ask, however, whether it is not time that we put 
these “childish things” under some sort of measured restraint 
so that their perpetual brainwashings of the human community 
be subjected to some degree of predictable operation. It has 
been said that the inevitable war is one whose causes have not 
been discerned. Since there can be no greater contradiction or