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spite of being “distinguished by his commonsense and liberal
educational outlook.”
Even this brief attention to Senecanism and scholasticism
in ancient Rome will help to understand how oral tradition in
Western literature is transmitted by the Senecan vogue, and
was gradually obliterated by the printed page in the later
eighteenth century. The paradox that Senecanism is both
highbrow in medieval scholasticism and lowbrow in the
Elizabethan popular drama will be found to be resolved by this
oral factor. But for Montaigne, as for Burton, Bacon, and
Browne, there was no enigma. Senecan antithesis and “amble”
(as described in Senecan Amble by George Williamson) provided
the authentic means of scientific observation and experience of
mental process. When only the eye is engaged, the multi-
levelled gestures and resonances of Senecan oral action are