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Nevertheless, between the nomadic hunters and the
sedentary cultivators there is a similarity in behavior that
seems to us infinitely more important than their
differences: both live in a sacralized cosmos , both share
in a cosmic sacrality manifested equally in the animal
world and in the vegetable world. We need only compare
their existential situations with that of a man of the
modern societies living in a desacralized cosmos , and we
shall immediately be aware of all that separates him from
them.
We have already seen that sedentary or specialized man,
as opposed to nomadic man, is on the way to discovery of the
visual mode of human experience. But as long as homo sedens
avoids the more potent kinds of optical conditioning, as found
in literacy, the mere shades of sacral life, as between nomadic