Modern humanity has lost the sense of the sacred, and in doi... - Mircea Eliade

"Modern humanity has lost the sense of the sacred, and in doing so has lost touch with a fundamental dimension of being."

Mircea Eliade Philosophy

Historian of Religion Romanian 1907–1986

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