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the knowledge which he purveys in his arts as a commodity
rather than as a wisdom.” The printed book will naturally tend
to become a work of reference rather than a speaking wisdom.
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned
with light through, not light on.
* The scholastic deviation from the monastic literary
humanism was soon to be confronted by the flood of ancient
texts from the printing presses. Four centuries of dialectical
intensity seemed to end there; but the spirit and achievement
of scholastic science and abstraction was carried along, as
men like Clagett have shown, into the full tide of modern
science.
The scholastic discovery of visual means of graphing non-