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experience—sacred and profane—will be apparent when
we come to describe sacred space and the ritual building
of the human habitation, or the varieties of the religious
experience of time, or the relations of religious man to
nature and the world of tools, or the consecration of
human life itself, the sacrality with which man’s vital
functions (food, sex, work and so on) can be charged.
Simply calling to mind what the city or the house, nature,
tools, or work have become for modern and nonreligious
man will show with the utmost vividness all that
distinguishes such a man from a man belonging to any
archaic society, or even from a peasant of Christian
Europe. For modern consciousness, a physiological act—
eating, sex and so on—is in some only an organic
phenomenon, . . . But for the primitive, such an act is
never simply physiological; it is, or can become, a