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impunity, just because he is an expert aware of the changes in
sense perception.
The operation of the money medium in seventeenth-
century Japan had effects not unlike the operation of
typography in the West. The penetration of the money
economy, wrote G. B. Sansom (in Japan , Cresset Press, London,
1931) “caused a slow but irresistible revolution, culminating in
the breakdown of feudal government and the resumption of
intercourse with foreign countries after more than two hundred
years of seclusion.” Money has reorganized the sense life of
peoples just because it is an extension of our sense lives. This
change does not depend upon approval or disapproval of those
living in the society.
Arnold Toynbee made one approach to the transforming