So, what happened to the left in Arabic and 
Hebrew and Phoenician, once it had actually been 
changed in the actual nature of the script, would 
then move to the right. It’s a complex story, but 
the upshot of it is that analysis became the prime 
processing strategy of the mind—of the Greek 
reader and of the Latin reader. And then that 
affected rationality. Rationality was a form of 
measuring proportion between objects. It affected 
the proposal to the eye of how the world looked. 
Instead of the dominant symbolic environment, the 
seizing of the reality of the medieval mind, for 
example, is a configuration. But the Renaissance 
eye looks at things in their proportion and looks at