container packed with every possible opinion and point of view 
created mental anguish. For the suppression of any possible 
aspect of truth, any valid angle, might weaken the whole 
structure. In fact, the stress on the abstract visual evoked as 
standards of truth the mere matching of object with object. So 
unconscious were people of this matching theory as being 
dominant, that when a Pope or a Blake pointed out that truth 
is a ratio between the mind and things, a ratio made by the 
shaping imagination, there was nobody to note or comprehend. 
Mechanical matching, not imaginative making, will rule in the 
arts and sciences, in politics and education, until our own time.

     Earlier, in presenting Pope’s prophetic vision of the return 
of tribal or collective consciousness, the relation to Joyce’s 
Finnegans Wake  had been indicated. Joyce had devised for 
Western man individual pass-keys to the collective