kind of sixth sense which enables him to divine which of 
     several readings is correct. Even the perusal of the 
     classical language, therefore, requires long preparation. 
     Composition is still more of a task. Few Occidentals have 
     achieved an acceptable style and many a modern Chinese 
     who is the finished product of the present-day curriculum 
     is far from adept.

     The concluding observation of Carothers is that genetic 
studies of human groups offer no certainty and very small 
data, indeed, compared to cultural and environmental 
approaches. My suggestion is that cultural ecology has a 
reasonably stable base in the human sensorium, and that any 
extension of the sensorium by technological dilation has a quite 
appreciable effect in setting up new ratios or proportions 
among all the senses. Languages being that form of