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of something near and corporeal.”
The ecstatic tribal man emanates from every page of
Spengler. It never occurred to him that the ratio among
corporeal things could never be less than rational. That is to
say, rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion
among the sensuous components of experience, and is not
something added to such sense experience. Subrational beings
have no means of achieving such a ratio or proportion in their
sense lives but are wired for fixed wave lengths, as it were,
having infallibility in their own area of experience.
Consciousness, complex and subtle, can be impaired or ended
by a mere stepping-up or dimming-down of any one sense
intensity, which is the procedure in hypnosis. And the
intensification of one sense by a new medium can hypnotize an
entire community. Thus, when he thought he saw modern