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In antiquity and the Middle Ages reading was necessarily
reading aloud.
* “It is not too much to say that with Aristotle the Greek world
passed from oral instruction to the habit of reading,” writes
Frederic G. Kenyon in Books and Readers in Ancient Greece and
Rome (p. 25). But for centuries to come “reading” meant
reading aloud. In fact, it is only today that the decree nisi has
been handed down by the speed-reading institutes to divorce
eye and speech in the act of reading. The recognition that in
reading from left to right we make incipient word formations
with our throat muscles was discovered to be the principal
cause of “slow” reading. But the hushing up of the reader has
been a gradual process, and even the printed word did not
succeed in silencing all readers. But we have tended to
associate lip movements and mutterings from a reader with