We don’t have such a clear moment or an obvious ritual in our society that says to my son, “You are a man.” Where is the passage today? CAMPBELL: I don’t have the answer. I figure you must leave it up to the boy to know when he has got his power. A baby bird knows when it can fly. We have a couple of birds’ nests right near where we have breakfast in the morning, and we have seen several little families launched. These little things don’t make a mistake. They stay on the branch until they know how to fly, and then they fly. I think somehow, inside, a person knows this.
