"I realised how [Richard] Wilhelm had opened up a great new world to him, even as Columbus did for his own restricted day, the ancient civilization of a China already a thousand years or more before Christ, already at home in a dimension wherein Jung himself was a lonely, exposed pioneer and on which the culture of the West had turned its back for so long, to its impoverishment and peril."

- ~Laurens van der Post, Jung and the Story of our Time, Page 55