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typographic literacy had not only produced the Cartesian
outlook but also the special traits of American psychology and
politics. By his method of interplay among divergent perceptual
modes, de Tocqueville was able to react to his world, not in
sections but as a whole, and as to an open field. And such is
the method which A. P. Usher notes has been absent from the
study of cultural history and change. De Tocqueville had
employed a procedure such as J. Z. Young describes (p. 77): “It
may be that a great part of the secret of the brain’s powers is
the enormous opportunity provided for interaction between the
effects of stimulating each part of the receiving fields. It is this
provision of interacting-places or mixing-places that allows us
to react to the world as a whole to much greater degree than
other animals can do.” But our technologies are by no means
uniformly favorable to this organic function of interplay and of
interdependence. To investigate this question with respect to