ideas so easily accepted.”

     At this point it would be a joy to have a de Tocqueville to 
take over the writing of The Gutenberg Galaxy , for his mode of 
thought is the one that is here followed so far as possible. He 
defines his method perfectly when speaking of the old regime 
(p. 136): “I myself have tried to judge it not from my own ideas 
but from the feelings which it inspired in those who endured 
and then destroyed it.”

     Nationalism depends upon or derives from the “fixed point 
of view” that arrives with print, perspective, and visual 
quantification. But a fixed point of view can be collective or 
individual or both, thus causing great diversity of clash and 
outlook. Hayes writes in his Historical Evolution of Modern  
Nationalism  (p. 135): “By 1815 liberal nationalism was a fairly