participation of all the senses. But nonliterate cultures 
experience such an overwhelming tyranny of the ear over the 
eye that any balanced interplay among the senses is unknown 
at the auditory extreme, just as balanced interplay of the 
senses became extremely difficult after print stepped up the 
visual component in Western experience to extreme intensity.

The modern physicist is at home with oriental field theory.

*     Carothers finds Riesman’s classification of “tradition-
directed” peoples as corresponding “quite closely to those 
areas occupied by societies which are nonliterate or in which 
the great majority of the population has been untouched by 
literacy” (p. 315). It should be understood that to be 
“touched” by literacy is not a very sudden affair, nor is it a 
total matter at any time or in any place. That should become