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Scripture, legends, history, literature, furnish a crowd of
examples or of types, together making up a sort of moral
clan, to which the matter in question belongs. (p. 227)
Huizinga sees clearly that even written materials are
strongly urged into the oral pattern of proverb and aphorism
and exemplum or instance, by the oral form of discourse. That
is why: “In the Middle Ages everyone liked to base a serious
argument on a text, so as to give it a foundation.” But the
“text” was felt to be the immediate voice of an auctor , and was
authoritative in an oral way. We shall see that with the advent
of printing the feeling for authority is completely confused by
the intermingling of the old oral and the new visual
organization of knowledge.
The second point concerning the oral bias towards