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medium, the overextended man or culture, and the peripety or
reversal that inevitably follows:
He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm;
He who takes the longest strides does not walk the fastest . . .
He who boasts of what he will do succeeds in nothing;
He who is proud of his work achieves nothing that endures.
One of the most common causes of breaks in any system
is the cross-fertilization with another system, such as
happened to print with the steam press, or with radio and
movies (that yielded the talkies). Today with microfilm and
micro-cards, not to mention electric memories, the printed
word assumes again much of the handicraft character of a
manuscript. But printing from movable type was, itself, the
major break boundary in the history of phonetic literacy, just