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Until now a culture has been a mechanical fate for societies,
the automatic interiorization of their own technologies.
* Hitherto most people have accepted their cultures as a fate,
like climate or vernacular; but our empathic awareness of the
exact modes of many cultures is itself a liberation from them
as prisons. Hence Joyce’s title is also a manifesto. In a most
competent survey, Man: His First Million Years , Ashley Montagu
comments (pp. 193­4) on aspects of nonliteracy in a way that
relates to these themes:
Nonliterate man casts the net of thought over the
whole world. Mythology and religion may be closely
related, but where one grows out of man’s everyday life,
the other grows out of his concern with the supernatural.
And so it is with his view of the world, which will be