Must be the mistress to this theoric;
     Which is a wonder how his Grace should glean it, 
     Since his addiction was to courses vain,
     His companies unletter’d, rude and shallow,
     His hours fill’d up with riots, banquets, sports;
     And never noted in him any study, 
     Any retirement, any sequestration 
     From open haunts and popularity.

     But the practical qualities fostered by Ramism are more 
immediately related to numbers than to letters: “While Adam 
Smith attacked the system which emerged, he was aware of its 
advantages in defence. He saw it as part of the spread of the 
price system which had swept aside the feudal system, and led 
to the discovery of the New World . . . ” (51) Innis is here 
writing on “The Penetrative Powers of the Price System,” by