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conduces to nourishment is relishable, whereas other things
that cannot be assimulated and be turned into our
substance are insipid. A Discourse cannot be pleasant to
the Hearer that is not easie to the Speaker; nor can it be
easily pronounced unless it be heard with delight.
Here is an equilibrium theory of human diet and expression such
as even now we are only striving to work out again for media
after centuries of fragmentation and specialism.
Pope Pius XII was deeply concerned that there be serious
study of the media today. On February 17, 1950, he said:
It is not an exaggeration to say that the future of modern
society and the stability of its inner life depend in large part
on the maintenance of an equilibrium between the strength