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clash in human cultures than that between those representing
the eye and the ear, it is not strange that our metamorphosis
into the eye mode of Western man should be only less
agonizing than our present shift into the auditory mode of
electronic man. But there is enough inner trauma in such
change without the auditory cultures and the optical cultures
flinging themselves at each other in outer manifestations of
sadistic self-righteousness.
Mircea Eliade begins his introduction to The Sacred and
the Profane as a manifesto announcing the long-delayed
recognition of “the Sacred” or of auditory space in our century.
He hails (pp. 8­9) Rudolf Otto’s Das Heilige (The Sacred ) of
1917: “Passing over the rational and speculative side of
religion, he concentrated chiefly on its irrational aspect. For
Otto had read Luther and had understood what the “living