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used without further explanation, they mean an activity
which, like chant and writing, requires the participation of
the whole body and the whole mind. Doctors of ancient
times used to recommend reading to their patients as a
physical exercise on an equal level with walking, running or
ball-playing. The fact that the text which was being
composed or copied was often written to dictation given
aloud, either to oneself or to a secretary, satisfactorily
explains the errors apparently due to hearing in medieval
manuscripts: the use of the dictaphone today produces
similar mistakes.
Further on (p. 90), Leclerc discusses the ways in which
the inevitable action of reading aloud entered into the whole
conception of meditation, prayer, study, and memory: