spirit.”

The Gutenberg Galaxy is concerned to show why alphabetic 
man was disposed to desacralize his mode of being.

*     The later section of this book will accept the role declined by 
Eliade when he says: “It does not devolve upon us to show by 
what historical processes modern man has desacralized his 
world and assumed a profane existence.” To show by exactly 
what historical process this was done is the theme of The  
Gutenberg Galaxy.  And having shown the process, we can at 
least make a conscious and responsible choice concerning 
whether we elect once more the tribal mode which has such 
attraction for Eliade:

          The abyss that divides the two modalities of