What makes a steel ax superior to a stone ax is not that the first one is better made than the second. They are equally well made, but steel is quite different than stone. In the same way we may be able to show that the same logical processes operate in this myth as in science, and that man has always been thinking equally well; the impoverishment lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which he might apply its unchanged and unchanging powers (p. 230).

Levi-Strauss, Claude (1977). Structural Anthropology, v. 1. Harmondsworth: Penguin.