care less.” The same integrity indicated by the term 
“disinterested” as a mark of the scientific and scholarly temper 
of a literate and enlightened society is now increasingly 
repudiated as “specialization” and fragmentation of knowledge 
and sensibility. The fragmenting and analytic power of the 
printed word in our psychic lives gave us that “dissociation of 
sensibility” which in the arts and literature since Cézanne and 
since Baudelaire has been a top priority for elimination in every 
program of reform in taste and knowledge. In the “implosion” of 
the electric age the separation of thought and feeling has come 
to seem as strange as the departmentalization of knowledge in 
schools and universities. Yet it was precisely the power to 
separate thought and feeling, to be able to act without 
reacting, that split literate man out of the tribal world of close 
family bonds in private and social life.