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sensuous intuitions, that in many ways their developments
went along similar lines, and that their limitations were implicit
in those intuitions.” (12)
From the point of view of recent intense awareness of the
visual components of experience, then, the Greek world looks
timid and tentative. But there was nothing in the manuscript
phase of alphabetic technology that was intense enough to
split the visual from the tactile entirely. Not even Roman script
had the power to do that. It was not until the experience of
mass production of exactly uniform and repeatable type, that
the fission of the senses occurred, and the visual dimension
broke away from the other senses.
Oswald Spengler noted in The Decline of the West (p. 89)
the liquidation of the visual, Western awareness in our new