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physical organs. Our letting-go of ourselves, self-alienations, as
it were, in order to amplify or increase the power of various
functions, Baudelaire considered to be flowers of growths of
evil. The city as amplification of human lusts and sensual
striving had for him an entire organic and psychic unity.
Literate man, civilized man, tends to restrict and enclose
space and to separate functions, whereas tribal man had freely
extended the form of his body to include the universe. Acting
as an organ of the cosmos, tribal man accepted his bodily
functions as modes of participation in the divine energies. The
human body in Indian religious thought was ritually related to
the cosmic image, and this in turn was assimilated into the
form of house. Housing was an image of both the body and the
universe for tribal and nonliterate societies. The building of the
house with its hearth as fire-altar was ritually associated with