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that the eye is regarded by many Africans less as a
receiving organ than as an instrument of the will, the ear
being the main receiving organ.
Carothers reiterates that the Westerner depends on a
high degree of visual shaping of spatiotemporal relations
without which it is impossible to have the mechanistic sense of
causal relations so necessary to the order of our lives. But the
quite different assumptions of native perceptual life have led
him to ask (p. 311) what has been the possible role of written
words in shifting habits of perception from the auditory to
visual stress:
When words are written, they become, of course, a part
of the visual world. Like most of the elements of the
visual world, they become static things and lose, as such,