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they live.
What happens is reality to the nonliterate. If
ceremonies calculated to increase the birth of animals
and the yield of plants are followed by such increases,
then the ceremonies are not only connected with them
but are part of them; for without the ceremonies the
increase of animals and plants would not have occurred—
so the nonliterate reasons. It is not that the nonliterate is
characterized by an illogical mind; his mind is perfectly
logical, and he uses it very well, indeed. An educated white
man finding himself suddenly deposited in the Central
Australian desert would be unlikely to last very long. Yet
the Australian aboriginal manages very well. The
aboriginals of all lands have made adjustments to their
environments which indicate beyond any doubt that their
intelligence is of high order. The trouble with the