Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08461_Field_TCGG T226.txt

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literate man; even “a peasant of Christian Europe” retains some
of the old auditory resonance and aura of sacral man, as the
Romantics insisted more than two hundred years ago. So long
as a culture is nonliterate, it has for Eliade the indispensable
sacral ingredients (p. 17):

     It is obvious, for example, that the symbolisms and cults
     of Mother Earth, of human and agricultural fertility, of the
     sacrality of woman, and the like, could not develop and
     constitute a complex religious system except through the
     discovery of agriculture; it is equally obvious that a
     preagricultural society, devoted to hunting, could not feel
     the sacrality of Mother Earth in the same way or with the
     same intensity. Hence there are differences in religious
     experience explained by differences in economy, culture,
     and social organization—in short, by history.