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that China can also develop the lineal and visual patterns that
give central unity and aggregate uniform power to Western
work and organization. As we move out of the Gutenberg era of
our own culture, we can more readily discern its primary
features of homogeneity, uniformity, and continuity. These
were the characteristics that gave the Greeks and Romans their
easy ascendancy over the nonliterate barbarians. The barbarian
or tribal man, then as now, was hampered by cultural pluralism,
uniqueness, and discontinuity.
To sum up, pictographic and hieroglyphic writing as used
in Babylonian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures represents an
extension of the visual sense for storing and expediting access
to human experience. All of these forms give pictorial
expression to oral meanings. As such, they approximate the
animated cartoon and are extremely unwieldy, requiring many