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In these circumstances it is implicit that behavioral
constraints must include constraint of thought. Since all
behavior in such societies is governed and conceived on
highly social lines, and since directed thinking can hardly
be other than personal and unique for each individual, it is
furthermore implicit in the attitude of these societies that
the very possibility of such thinking is hardly to be
recognized. Therefore, if and when such thinking does
occur, at other than strictly practical and utilitarian
levels, it is apt to be seen as deriving from the devil or
from other external evil influences, and as something to
be feared and shunned as much in oneself as in others.
(p. 312)
It is, perhaps, a little unexpected to hear the compulsive
and rigid patterns of a deeply oral-aural community referred to