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process, and the instant speed of electricity confers the mythic
dimension on ordinary industrial and social action today. We
live mythically but continue to think fragmentarily and on single
planes.
Scholars today are acutely aware of a discrepancy
between their ways of treating subjects and the subject itself.
Scriptural scholars of both the Old and New Testaments
frequently say that while their treatment must be linear, the
subject is not. The subject treats of the relations between God
and man, and between God and the world, and of the relations
between man and his neighbor—all these subsist together, and
act and react upon one another at the same time. The Hebrew
and Eastern mode of thought tackles problem and resolution,
at the outset of a discussion, in a way typical of oral societies
in general. The entire message is then traced and retraced,