Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.
The collective unconscious is not dependent on cerebral heredity; it is the result of what I shall call the unreflected imposition of a culture.
The western man used his flail for a thousand years while the Oriental used oxen, but when the inventive mind of the Occidental awoke it devised a machine which has now attained such a degree of perfection that it threshes thousands of bushels of wheat in a day, while the Arab still employs his primitive method. In the same way the Arab preserved science and philosophy as closed subjects only to be transferred to the western mind for more liberal development.