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of the total field) can be expected to surpass the old tribal
cosmic concern with the Africa within.
Primitive man lived in a much more tyrannical cosmic
machine than Western literate man has ever invented. The
world of the ear is more embracing and inclusive than that of
the eye can ever be. The ear is hypersensitive. The eye is cool
and detached. The ear turns man over to universal panic while
the eye, extended by literacy and mechanical time, leaves some
gaps and some islands free from the unremitting acoustic
pressure and reverberation.