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the formulas of primitive and child art and living. And this
approach works up to a point, since the tactile bounding lines
of childhood visual life are not far from those of nonliterate
sensibility. Huizinga writes (p. 9):
To the world when it was half a thousand years
younger, the outlines of all things seemed more clearly
marked than to us. The contrast between suffering and
joy, between adversity and happiness, appeared more
striking. All experience had yet to the minds of men the
directness and absoluteness of the pleasure and pain of
child-life. Every event, every action, was still embodied in
expressive, and solemn forms, which raised them to the
dignity of a ritual. For it was not merely the great facts of
birth, marriage and death which, by the sacredness of the
sacrament, were raised to the rank of mysteries; incidents