elieve their own cultures superior, but Campbell himself, as a rational and scientific analyst of history, as essentially superior to the narrow-minded in every civilization, past and present. He fails to see the scientific myths he himself accepts blindly---such as that reality consists of observable and measurable phenomena and that the true believers of every civilization and religion are similarly deluded.
Campbell sets out to question the argument of Thomas Mann that "the earliest foundations of humanity, its history and culture, reveal themselves unfathomable" (Campbell, 1991, 5). Essentially, Campbell, as a scientist and not a poet or imaginative thinker, disagrees with Mann and believes instead that much can be known of the historical roots of humanity, if not in all its specifics than certainly in terms of the myths with which Campbell is primarily concerned. Campbell d
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