"The Pueblo sees no need for horizontal contact with the alien world without. The Anglo compulsion for lateral expansion- for more land, more wealth, influence, and power over his neighbors- is incomprehensible to him. He is rooted to a pin-prick of earth in immeasurable space. But that pin-prick is the whole universe in miniature. Nothing outside can add to what he has here; expansion can only detract from its meaning.
"Hence his contact with life is purely vertical. That is to say, his strength to live, his power to enjoy and understand life, derives from contact with its invisible forces. Only when this fails will the springs dry up, the air grow stale, and life in man wither at its root."
Frank Waters, "Masked Gods" 1950.
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