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The interiorization of the technology of the phonetic alphabet
translates man from the magical world of the ear to the neutral
visual world.
* J. C. Carothers, writing in Psychiatry (November, 1959) on
“Culture, Psychiatry and the Written Word,” set forth a number
of observations contrasting nonliterate natives with literate
natives, and the nonliterate man with the Western man
generally. He starts (p. 308) with the familiar fact that
by reason of the type of educational influences that
impinge upon Africans in infancy and early childhood, and
indeed throughout their lives, a man comes to regard
himself as a rather insignificant part of a much larger
organism—the family and the clan—and not as an
independent, self-reliant unit; personal initiative and