to be objectively regulated. And thus ultimately the 
     principle of economic equivalence of services is introduced 
     and becomes fundamental, while there still remains 
     always some place beside it for the old valuation based 
     upon the efficiency of the help and for the transitory 
     valuation based upon the subjective sacrifice.

     The exceeding usefulness of The Polish Peasant  for 
understanding the Gutenberg galaxy is that it offers a mosaic 
study of events in our time that correspond to what happened 
in the first Gutenberg age. What happened to the Polish 
peasant confronted with print technology and industrial 
organization, has happened in lesser degree to the Russian and 
the Japanese, and is beginning to happen in China.

     Before concluding Professor Nef’s testimony on the