the individual yet also creates massive groupings by means of 
vernacular nationalism. Friedenberg is speaking of a situation 
inherent in movable types from the first when he says (p. 54):

     We conceive our country as having achieved a position of 
     leadership and dominance by carefully subordinating 
     personal and ethnic disparity to the interests of 
     teamwork in a colossal technical and administrative 
     enterprise. For us, a personal conformity is a moral 
     mandate. When we insist on taking a personal stand and 
     bucking the system, we feel not only anxious but guilty as 
     well.

     Donne’s mention of his “hydroptic immoderate thirst for 
humane learning and languages” beset countless men in the 
sixteenth century. There was a furious consumer urge in that