human speculative inquiry, independent both of 
     housekeeping, the concern of each of us in his daily active 
     life, and of moral philosophy, the concern of us all for the 
     guidance of our inner lives. (p. 10)

     Already Europe was moving so far in the direction of 
visualized measurement and quantification of life that it “came 
to occupy for the first time a place apart from both the Near 
and Far East.” In other words, under manuscript conditions 
Europe was not very sharply distinct from the East which was 
also a manuscript culture.

     Let us turn a moment from Nef to Ong for confirmation 
of the new passion for quantity and measurement, we find that 
“the Ramist method appealed primarily to a desire for order, 
not to a desire for experimentation. . . . Ramus takes what