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"Eternal return" is the fimdamental fonn of the urgeschichtlichen, mythic consciousness.
(Mythic because it does not reflect.) [DlO,3]
ness. (Mythic because it does not reflect.) [DlO,3]
L'Elernite par les astres should he compared with the spirit of '48, '48, as it animates
Reynaud's Terre et del. With regard to this, Casson: " "On On discovering his earthly
destiny, destiny, man man feels a sort of vertigo and and cannot at first reconcile himself himself to this
destiny alone. alone. He He must link link it it up up to to the the greatest greatest possible possible immensity immensity of of time time and and
spacc. spacc. Only in the contcxt of its most sweeping breadth will he intoxicate himself
with with heing, heing, with movement, movement, with progress. progress. Only then then can can he he in in all confidence confidence and and
in in all dignity dignity pronounce pronounce the the sublime sublime words of of Jean Reynaud: Reynaud: 'I have have long long made made a a
practice of the universe. '" "'We find nothing in the universe that cannot serve to
elevate elevate us, us, and and we we are are genuinely genuinely elevated elevated only only in in taking taking advantage of of what what the
universe offers. offers. The stars stars themselves, themselves, in in their their sublime sublime hierarchy, are are hut a a series series
of steps by which we mount progressively toward infinity." dean> Cassou, Quarante-I",it