ratio in the senses as light through Being is everywhere in study 
of the senses of scripture as well. But all of these matters 
became much confused by the growing demand for light on , 
rather than light through , as the later technology set the visual 
faculty in ever sharper separation from the other senses. The 
dilemma ahead is perfectly defined by Otto von Simson in The  
Gothic Cathedral  (p. 3): “Not that Gothic interiors are 
particularly bright . . . in fact, the stained-glass windows were 
such inadequate sources of light that a subsequent and blinder 
age replaced many of them by grisaille or white windows that 
today convey a most misleading impression.”

     After Gutenberg the new visual intensity will require light 
on  everything. And its idea of space and time will change to 
regard them as containers to be  filled  with objects or 
activities. But in a manuscript age when the visual stood in