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scope to what is the basic principle of these media of clothing
and housing; namely, their extension of our bodily heat-control
mechanisms in a way that enables us to attain some degree of
equilibrium in a changing environment.
Modern engineering provides means of housing that range
from the space capsule to walls created by air jets. Some firms
now specialize in providing large buildings with inside walls and
floors that can be moved at will. Such flexibility naturally tends
toward the organic. Human sensitivity seems once more to be
attuned to the universal currents that made of tribal man a
cosmic skin-diver.
It is not only the Ulysses of James Joyce that testifies to
this trend. Recent studies of the Gothic churches have stressed
the organic aims of their builders. The saints took the body