He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and 
     observing machine that the world has seen; but, as a 
     lover, he would have placed himself in a false position. He 
     never spoke of the softer passions save with a gibe and a 
     sneer. . . . Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one 
     of his own high-power lenses, would not be more 
     disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as
     his. (58)

It will become even plainer in the present volume why the 
Gutenberg drive to apply knowledge by translation and 
uniformity encounters such resistance in the matters of sex 
and race.

     The process of “uniformatization” in its social and 
political bearings is explained by de Tocqueville very clearly in