Note 245 — Chapter II · RHYTHM AS THE ESSENTIAL FACT OF POETRY (continued 2)

“Grundelement dieser Dreieinheit,” Ibid., p. 78. Of course, he admits elsewhere similar functions of the dance, which was, after all, a kind of labour, even when not an imitation of labour. Hence Bücher gives priority to labour in its large sense. For primitive man the line between work and play was not too sharply drawn.