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phenomena without disturbing them, but: “Experiment,
according to the same physiologists, implies, on the contrary,
the idea of a variation or disturbance that an investigator
brings into the conditions of natural phenomena. . . . To do
this, we suppress an organ in the living subject, by a section or
ablation; and from the disturbance produced in the whole
organism or in a special function, we deduce the function of the
missing organ.”
The work of Milman Parry and Professor Albert Lord was
directed to observing the entire poetic process under oral
conditions, and in contrasting that result with the poetic
process which we under written conditions, assume as
“normal.” Parry and Lord, that is, studied the poetic organism
when the auditory function was suppressed by literacy. They
might also have considered the effect on the organism when