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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