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participation of all the senses. But nonliterate cultures
experience such an overwhelming tyranny of the ear over the
eye that any balanced interplay among the senses is unknown
at the auditory extreme, just as balanced interplay of the
senses became extremely difficult after print stepped up the
visual component in Western experience to extreme intensity.
The modern physicist is at home with oriental field theory.
* Carothers finds Riesman’s classification of “tradition-
directed” peoples as corresponding “quite closely to those
areas occupied by societies which are nonliterate or in which
the great majority of the population has been untouched by
literacy” (p. 315). It should be understood that to be
“touched” by literacy is not a very sudden affair, nor is it a
total matter at any time or in any place. That should become