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universe, and hence what his total experience of life
proves to be in comparison with the experience of the
man without religious feeling, of the man who lives, or
wishes to live, in a desacralized world. It should be said at
once that the completely profane world, the wholly
desacralized cosmos, is a recent discovery in the history
of the human spirit. It does not devolve upon us to show
by what historical processes and as the result of what
changes in spiritual attitudes and behavior modern man
has desacralized his world and assumed a profane
existence. For our purpose it is enough to observe that
desacralization pervades the entire experience of the
nonreligious man of modern societies and that, in
consequence, he finds it increasingly difficult to rediscover
the existential dimensions of religious man in the archaic
societies. (p. 13)