luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. As Innis 
got more insights he abandoned any mere point of view in his 
presentation of knowledge. When he interrelates the 
development of the steam press with “the consolidation of the 
vernaculars” and the rise of nationalism and revolution he is 
not reporting anybody’s point of view, least of all his own. He is 
setting up a mosaic configuration or galaxy for insight. It was a 
prime effect of print in altering human sense ratios, that it 
substituted static point of view for insight into causal 
dynamics. We shall consider this further on. But Innis makes no 
effort to “spell out” the interrelations between the components 
in his galaxy. He offers no consumer packages in his later work, 
but only do-it-yourself kits, like a symbolist poet or an abstract 
painter. Literature and the Press  by Louis Dudek provides a 
straight-away perspective picture of the rise of the steam 
press, but the effects on language, on war, and on the