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magic of total involvement. As the audience for the magic
games and plays became more individualistic, the role of art
and ritual shifted from the cosmic to the humanly
psychological, as in Greek drama. Even the ritual became more
verbal and less mimetic or dancelike. Finally, the verbal
narrative from Homer and Ovid became a romantic literary
substitute for the corporate liturgy and group participation.
Much of the scholarly effort of the past century in many fields
has been devoted to a minute reconstruction of the conditions
of primitive art and ritual, for it has been felt that this course
offers the key to understanding the mind of primitive man. The
key to this understanding, however, is also available in our new
electric technology that is so swiftly and profoundly re-creating
the conditions and attitudes of primitive tribal man in
ourselves.