conduces to nourishment is relishable, whereas other things 
     that cannot be assimulated and be turned into our 
     substance are insipid. A Discourse cannot be pleasant to 
     the Hearer that is not easie to the Speaker; nor can it be 
     easily pronounced unless it be heard with delight.

Here is an equilibrium theory of human diet and expression such 
as even now we are only striving to work out again for media 
after centuries of fragmentation and specialism.

     Pope Pius XII was deeply concerned that there be serious 
study of the media today. On February 17, 1950, he said:

     It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of modern 
     society and the stability of its inner life depend in large part 
     on the maintenance of an equilibrium between the strength