avoid. What is to be thought of people who wish such a return 
to preliterate ways, when they have no inkling of how the 
civilized visual way was ever substituted for tribal auditory 
magic?

     At this hour, when Americans are discovering new 
passions for skin-diving and the wraparound space of small 
cars, thanks to the indomitable tactile promptings of the TV 
image, the same image is inspiring many English people with 
race feelings of tribal exclusiveness. Whereas highly literate 
Westerners have always idealized the condition of integration 
of races, it has been their literate culture that made impossible 
real uniformity among races. Literate man naturally dreams of 
visual solutions to the problems of human differences. At the 
end of the nineteenth century, this kind of dream suggested 
similar dress and education for both men and women. The