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| | Comparativism in a World of Difference |
 | | So crucial is the difference that it seems nearly to have destroyed the personal friendship between the two men until Eliade changed the citation of Jung in a later edition of the work and wrote an apology in the introduction to another work [see Eliade, Yoga, 219-27; Cosmos and History, Torchbook edition, 1959, vii-ix]. |
 | | Rather it is a separating of oneself from the "comparatively trivial attitude toward the human spirit and the world" [Masks...Primitive 229, 242, 252-54, 263, 348], a conversion in myth and ritual from family to universe, from particular tribe to deep structures. |
 | | More appropriate to a future world order, would be to see such discourse as mythic, pointing to the unknown and the unknowable, such that foreclosure of signigication is withdrawn, so that, like a bow, it can send the arrow forth from itself. |
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