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avoid. What is to be thought of people who wish such a return
to preliterate ways, when they have no inkling of how the
civilized visual way was ever substituted for tribal auditory
magic?
At this hour, when Americans are discovering new
passions for skin-diving and the wraparound space of small
cars, thanks to the indomitable tactile promptings of the TV
image, the same image is inspiring many English people with
race feelings of tribal exclusiveness. Whereas highly literate
Westerners have always idealized the condition of integration
of races, it has been their literate culture that made impossible
real uniformity among races. Literate man naturally dreams of
visual solutions to the problems of human differences. At the
end of the nineteenth century, this kind of dream suggested
similar dress and education for both men and women. The