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mental habits had become fixed. Einstein’s ideas,
similarly, will seem easier to generations which grow up
with them; but for us a certain effort of imaginative
reconstruction is unavoidable.
It is simpler to say that if a new technology extends one or
more of our senses outside us into the social world, then new
ratios among all of our senses will occur in that particular
culture. It is comparable to what happens when a new note is
added to a melody. And when the sense ratios alter in any
culture then what had appeared lucid before may suddenly be
opaque, and what had been vague or opaque will become
translucent. As Heinrich Wolfflin stated the matter in 1915, in
his revolutionary Principles of Art History (p. 62) “the effect is
the thing that counts, not the sensuous facts.” Wolfflin began
working from the discoveries of the sculptor Adolf von