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ratio in the senses as light through Being is everywhere in study
of the senses of scripture as well. But all of these matters
became much confused by the growing demand for light on ,
rather than light through , as the later technology set the visual
faculty in ever sharper separation from the other senses. The
dilemma ahead is perfectly defined by Otto von Simson in The
Gothic Cathedral (p. 3): “Not that Gothic interiors are
particularly bright . . . in fact, the stained-glass windows were
such inadequate sources of light that a subsequent and blinder
age replaced many of them by grisaille or white windows that
today convey a most misleading impression.”
After Gutenberg the new visual intensity will require light
on everything. And its idea of space and time will change to
regard them as containers to be filled with objects or
activities. But in a manuscript age when the visual stood in