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entirely suited to this purpose. For knowing the “take-off” or
new dimensions for visual experience and organization which
began shortly after printing, it is interesting to observe how
much this visual stress was anticipated in a variety of areas
quite unrelated to Gutenberg technology. The look we have just
taken at the ways in which ancient grammatica  persisted in
oral relation to medieval writing and textual study, helps to
show how little the manuscript culture was designed to
intensify the visual faculty to the point of splitting it away from
the other senses.

     Smalley observes (p. xiv): “Teachers in the middle ages
regarded the Bible as a schoolbook par excellence. The little
clerk learned his letters from the Psalter, and the Bible would be
used in teaching him the liberal arts. Hence Bible study is linked
with the history of institutions from the very beginning.”