"The hero, therefore, is a man or woman who has been able to battle his personal and local historical limitations to the general valid, normally human forms. Such a one's visions, ideas, and inspirations come pristine from the primary springs of human life and thought. Hence they are eloquent, not of the present, disintegrating society and psyche, but of the unquenched source from through which society is reborn. The hero has died as a modern man; but as a eternal man - perfected, unspecific, universal man - he has been reborn. His second solemn task and deed therefore (as Toynbee declares and as all the mythologies of mankind indicate) is to return then to us, transfigured, and teach the lesson he has learned of life renewed."
- Joseph Cambell, "The hero with a thousand faces".
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