energies. Print released great psychic and social energies in the 
Renaissance, as today in Japan or Russia, by breaking the 
individual out of the traditional group while providing a model 
of how to add individual to individual in massive agglomeration 
of power. The same spirit of private enterprise that emboldened 
authors and artists to cultivate self-expression led other men 
to create giant corporations, both military and commercial.

     Perhaps the most significant of the gifts of typography 
to man is that of detachment and noninvolvement—the power 
to act without reacting. Science since the Renaissance has 
exalted this gift which has become an embarrassment in the 
electric age, in which all people are involved in all others at all 
times. The very word “disinterested,” expressing the loftiest 
detachment and ethical integrity of typographic man, has in 
the past decade been increasingly used to mean: “He couldn’t