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startling were the ordinary reader about native societies not
able to vibrate with a deep sense of affinity for the same, since
our new electric culture provides our lives again with a tribal
base. There is available the lyrical testimony of a very Romantic
biologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in his Phenomenon of Man
(p.240):
Now, to the degree that—under the effect of this
pressure and thanks to their psychic permeability—the
human elements infiltrated more and more into each
other, their minds (mysterious coincidence) were mutually
stimulated by proximity. And as though dilated upon
themselves, they each extended little by little the radius
of their influence upon this earth which, by the same
token, shrank steadily. What, in fact, do we see
happening in the modern paroxysm? It has been stated