sensuous intuitions, that in many ways their developments 
went along similar lines, and that their limitations were implicit 
in those intuitions.” (12)

     From the point of view of recent intense awareness of the 
visual components of experience, then, the Greek world looks 
timid and tentative. But there was nothing in the manuscript 
phase of alphabetic technology that was intense enough to 
split the visual from the tactile entirely. Not even Roman script 
had the power to do that. It was not until the experience of 
mass production of exactly uniform and repeatable type, that 
the fission of the senses occurred, and the visual dimension 
broke away from the other senses.

     Oswald Spengler noted in The Decline of the West  (p. 89) 
the liquidation of the visual, Western awareness in our new