that striketh the clock; or like as in a press going in a strait, 
where the foremost is driven by him that is next to him, and 
the next by him that followeth him.” (74)

     More than two hundred years before Thomas Huxley’s 
idea of the educated mind as a “clear cold logic engine with all 
its parts of equal strength” we encounter the principle of 
movable types and replaceable parts extended to social 
organization. But let us note that it is a meaningless principle 
where the uniform processing of minds by the habit of reading 
the printed word has not occurred. In a word, individualism, 
whether in the passive atomistic sense of drilled uniformed 
soldiery or in the active aggressive sense of private initiative 
and self-expression, alike assumes a prior technology of 
homogeneous citizens. This scabrous paradox has haunted 
literate men in every age. In the later nineteenth century it