that was a virtual educational and economic take-off. Ramus, 
with the whole scholastic drive behind him was able to 
translate it into the visual “humanism of the new merchant 
classes.” Such is the simplicity and crudity of the spatial 
models promoted by Ramus that no cultivated mind, and 
nobody sensitive to language, could be bothered with them. 
And yet it was this crudity that gave him his appeal to the self-
educated and to the merchant classes. Just how large a 
section of the new reading public these were has been 
demonstrated in the great study of Middle-Class Culture in  
Elizabethan England  by L. B. Wright.