The print-made split between head and heart is the trauma 
which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present.

*     What seemed fantastic in the early phases of print and 
the isolation of visuality, was that it appeared to create a 
comic hypocrisy or split between head and heart. It is 
interesting to see how the same split appeared to an Irishman 
and an Englishman just two hundred years later, at the end of 
the eighteenth century. Here is Edmund Burke, the sentimental 
Gael, commenting on the itemizing, calculating spirit in his 
Reflections on the Revolution in France :

          It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the 
     queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and 
     surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed 
     to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above