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obsession. Moreover, printing ideograms is totally different
from typography based on the phonetic alphabet. For the
ideograph even more than the hieroglyph is a complex Gestalt
involving all of the senses at once. The ideogram affords none
of the separation and specialization of sense, none of the
breaking apart of sight and sound and meaning which is the
key to the phonetic alphabet. So that the numerous
specializations and separations of function inherent in industry
and applied knowledge simply were not accessible to the
Chinese. Today they appear to be proceeding along the lines of
the phonetics alphabet. This ensures that they will liquidate
their present and traditional culture in toto. They will then
proceed by the paths of schizophrenia and multiply
dichotomies in the direction of physical power and aggressive
organization, on a centre-margin or Roman pattern.