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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