The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in 
their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all—
in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and 
morals.

*     As de Chardin explains in his Phenomenon of Man , new 
invention is the interiorization in man of the structures of 
earlier technology; and therefore it stockpiles, as it were. What 
we are studying here is the interiorization of print technology 
and its effect in shaping a new kind of man. De Chardin speaks 
of our own day when there are so many new technologies to 
interiorize: “Firstly, the power of invention, so rapidly intensified 
at the present time by the rationalized recoil of all the forces of 
research that it is already possible to speak of a forward leap 
of evolution.” (p. 305)