resulting cultural assumptions in the arts and sciences, of such 
a new specific ratio as was produced by TV, for example.

Francis Bacon, PR voice for the moderni, had both his feet in 
the Middle Ages.

*     Throughout Finnegans Wake  Joyce specifies the Tower of 
Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless 
assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. The 
figure of Francis Bacon has always seemed full of 
contradictions. As the PR man for modern science, he has been 
found to have both feet firmly planted in the Middle Ages. His 
prodigious Renaissance reputation baffles those who can find 
nothing scientific in his method. Much more highbrow than the 
furious pedagogue Petrus Ramus, he yet shares with Ramus an 
extreme visual bias which links him with his relative Roger