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wolde saye her owne stage, and thereafter orderynge and
behauynge herselfe in the playe that she hathe in hande,
playethe her parte accordynglye wyth comlynes, vtteringe
nothynge owte of dewe ordre and fassyon.’
Writing in 1516, More is aware that the medieval
scholastic dialogue, oral and conversational, is quite unsuited
to the new problems of large centralist states. A new kind of
processing of problems, one thing at a time, “nothing out of
due order and fashion,” must succeed to the older dialogue. For
the scholastic method was a simultaneous mosaic, a dealing
with many aspects and levels of meaning in crisp simultaneity.
This method will no longer serve in the new lineal era. A recent
book, Ramus: Method and the Decay of Dialogue , by Father Ong
is entirely concerned with this previously obscure subject, which
he illuminates brilliantly. His investigation of the transformation