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the visual function of language was given extraordinary
extension and power by literacy. And this is a factor in the
experimental method which may have been overlooked just
because it was inconvenient to manage. But given intense and
exaggerated action, “the disturbance produced in the whole
organism or in a special function” is equally observable.
Man the tool-making animal, whether in speech or in
writing or in radio, has long been engaged in extending one or
another of his sense organs in such a manner as to disturb all
of his other senses and faculties. But having made these
experiments, men have consistently omitted to follow them
with observations.
J. Z. Young, writing on Doubt and Certainty in Science,
notes (pp. 67­8):