the senses, a kind of loss of identity. Tribal, nonliterate man, 
living under the intense stress on auditory organization of all 
experience, is, as it were, entranced.

     Plato, however, the scribe of Socrates as he seemed to 
the Middle Ages, could in the act of writing (4) look back to the 
nonliterate world and say:

     It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said 
     to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts. But when 
     they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the 
     Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a 
     specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus 
     replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor 
     of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or 
     inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in