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the act of creation. This same ritual was even more deeply
embedded in the building of the ancient cities, their shape and
process having been deliberately modeled as an act of divine
praise. The city and the home in the tribal world (as in China
and India today) can be accepted as iconic embodiments of the
word , the divine mythos , the universal aspiration. Even in our
present electric age, many people yearn for this inclusive
strategy of acquiring significance for their own private and
isolated beings.
Literate man, once having accepted an analytic
technology of fragmentation, is not nearly so accessible to
cosmic patterns as tribal man. He prefers separateness and
compartment spaces, rather than the open cosmos. He
becomes less inclined to accept his body as a model of the
universe, or to see his house or any other of the media of