Scripture, legends, history, literature, furnish a crowd of 
     examples or of types, together making up a sort of moral 
     clan, to which the matter in question belongs. (p. 227)

     Huizinga sees clearly that even written materials are 
strongly urged into the oral pattern of proverb and aphorism 
and exemplum or instance, by the oral form of discourse. That 
is why: “In the Middle Ages everyone liked to base a serious 
argument on a text, so as to give it a foundation.” But the 
“text” was felt to be the immediate voice of an auctor , and was 
authoritative in an oral way. We shall see that with the advent 
of printing the feeling for authority is completely confused by 
the intermingling of the old oral and the new visual 
organization of knowledge.

     The second point concerning the oral bias towards