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of Cicero the Roman as it did the mind of Francis Bacon. And
for Cicero, as for Bacon, the technique of application depends
upon the Roman brick procedure of uniform repeatability and
homogeneous segments of knowledge.
If a technology is introduced either from within or from
without a culture, and if it gives new stress or ascendancy to
one or another of our senses, the ratio among all of our senses
is altered. We no longer feel the same, nor do our eyes and ears
and other senses remain the same. The interplay among our
senses is perpetual save in conditions of anesthesia. But any
sense when stepped up to high intensity can act as an
anesthetic for other senses. The dentist can now use
“audiac”—induced noise—to remove tactility. Hypnosis depends
on the same principle of isolating one sense in order to
anesthetize the others. The result is a break in the ratio among