on the intense separation of the visual from the other senses.

     There is here no question of values or preferences. It is 
necessary, however, for any other kind of understanding to 
know why “primitive” drawing is two-dimensional, whereas the 
drawing and painting of literate man tends towards 
perspective. Without this knowledge we cannot grasp why men 
ever ceased to be “primitive” or audile-tactile in their sense 
bias. Nor could we ever understand why men have “since 
Cézanne” abandoned the visual in favor of the audile-tactile 
modes of awareness and of organization of experience. This 
matter clarified, we can much more easily approach the role of 
alphabet and of printing in giving a dominant role to the visual 
sense in language and art and in the entire range of social and 
of political life. For until men have upgraded the visual 
component communities know only a tribal structure. The