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editors of this book. He noted in dismay that “seventy-five per
cent of your material is new. A successful book cannot venture
to be more than ten per cent new.” Such a risk seems quite
worth taking at the present time when the stakes are very high,
and the need to understand the effects of the extensions of
man becomes more urgent by the hour.
In the mechanical age now receding, many actions could
be taken without too much concern. Slow movement insured
that the reactions were delayed for considerable periods of
time. Today the action and the reaction occur almost at the
same time. We actually live mythically and integrally, as it were,
but we continue to think in the old, fragmented space and time
patterns of the pre-electric age.
Western man acquired from the technology of literacy the