perhaps why the highly literate Westerner steeped in the lineal 
and homogeneous modes of print culture has much trouble 
with the non-visual world of modern mathematics and physics. 
The “backward” or audile-tactile countries have a great 
advantage here.

     Another basic advantage of cultural clash and transition 
is that people on the frontier between different modes of 
experience develop a great power of generalization. McGeoch 
says (p. 396): “Generalization, likewise, is a form of transfer, 
whether at the comparatively elementary level of conditioned 
responses . . . or at the complex level of abstract scientific 
generalization, where a single statement sums up a myriad of 
particulars.”

     We can generalize this statement at once by pointing out