more scientifically conducted, and its results to be more 
     public, and at last in a sense marketable, there has been 
     a fresh demand for oral instruction.

     Wordsworth is describing the rise of centralist examining 
which arose from access to decentralized learning. For it was 
easy under print conditions for a student to read in areas 
unvisited by his examiners. But the principle that the portable, 
uniform book creates the centralized uniform exam (in place of 
the older oral test) is one that applies at all levels. The printed 
word, we shall see, has quite strange organizational effects on 
the vernacular. And the eighteenth century business man 
whose political arithmetic was based on visual quantity, or the 
eighteenth century business man whose speculations were built 
on the mechanism of “the hedonistic calculus,” alike relate to 
the uniform repeatability of print technology. Yet the