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the senses, a kind of loss of identity. Tribal, nonliterate man,
living under the intense stress on auditory organization of all
experience, is, as it were, entranced.
Plato, however, the scribe of Socrates as he seemed to
the Middle Ages, could in the act of writing (4) look back to the
nonliterate world and say:
It would take a long time to repeat all that Thamus said
to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts. But when
they came to letters, This, said Theuth, will make the
Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a
specific both for the memory and for the wit. Thamus
replied: O most ingenious Theuth, the parent or inventor
of an art is not always the best judge of the utility or
inutility of his own inventions to the users of them. And in