acquiring knowledge of a diversity of facts.

     The division of faculties which results from the 
technological dilation or externalization of one or another sense 
is so pervasive a feature of the past century that today we 
have become conscious, for the first time in history, of how 
these mutations of culture are initiated. Those who experience 
the first onset of a new technology, whether it be alphabet or 
radio, respond most emphatically because the new sense ratios 
set up at once by the technological dilation of eye or ear, 
present men with a surprising new world, which evokes a 
vigorous new “closure,” or novel pattern of interplay, among all 
of the senses together. But the initial shock gradually 
dissipates as the entire community absorbs the new habit of 
perception into all of its areas of work and association. But the 
real revolution is in this later and prolonged phase of