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disappears, and with it all feeling of security. The tribal
community (and later the ‘city’) is the place of security
for the member of the tribe. Surrounded by enemies and
by dangerous or even hostile magical forces, he
experiences the tribal community as a child experiences
his family and his home, in which he plays his definite
part; a part he knows well, and plays well. The breakdown
of the closed society, raising as it does the problem of
class and other problems of social status, must have had
the same effect upon the citizens as a serious family
quarrel and the breaking up of the family home is liable to
have on children. Of course, this kind of strain was felt by
the privileged classes, now that they were threatened,
more strongly than by those who had formerly been
suppressed; but even the latter felt uneasy. They also
were frightened by the breakdown of their ‘natural’ world.