that China can also develop the lineal and visual patterns that 
give central unity and aggregate uniform power to Western 
work and organization. As we move out of the Gutenberg era of 
our own culture, we can more readily discern its primary 
features of homogeneity, uniformity, and continuity. These 
were the characteristics that gave the Greeks and Romans their 
easy ascendancy over the nonliterate barbarians. The barbarian 
or tribal man, then as now, was hampered by cultural pluralism, 
uniqueness, and discontinuity.

     To sum up, pictographic and hieroglyphic writing as used 
in Babylonian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures represents an 
extension of the visual sense for storing and expediting access 
to human experience. All of these forms give pictorial 
expression to oral meanings. As such, they approximate the 
animated cartoon and are extremely unwieldy, requiring many