a sort of hypertrophy in our visual lives at the 
expense of the other senses. This situation exists 
even among our scientists who make 
assumptions about the natural order of things as 
if this order were primarily visual in respect to 
uniformity and continuity and connectiveness. 
The same situation can be tested in the ordinary 
inability to discriminate between the photograhic 
and the TV image which is not merely a crippling 
factor in the learning process today; it is 
symptomatic of an age-old failure in Western 
culture. The literate man, accustomed to an 
environment in which the visual sense is extended 
everywhere as a principle of organization,