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see or recognize their experience in a new material form is an
unbought grace of life. Experience translated into a new
medium literally bestows a delightful playback of earlier
awareness. The press repeats the excitement we have in using
our wits, and by using our wits we can translate the outer
world into the fabric of our own beings. This excitement of
translation explains why people quite naturally wish to use their
senses all the time. Those external extensions of sense and
faculty that we call media we use as constantly as we do our
eyes and ears, and from the same motives. On the other hand,
the book-oriented man considers this nonstop use of media as
debased; it is unfamiliar to him in the book-world.
Up to this point we have discussed the press as a mosaic
successor to the book-form. The mosaic is the mode of the
corporate or collective image and commands deep