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piety in seed-form: a naturalistic outlook on religion, a
systematic ignoring of the Mystery, a sentimental kind of
religious “experience” in place of the sober mysticism,
completely grounded on faith, of the great Christian
tradition.
It is not the aim of this book to do more than to explain
the configuration or galaxy of events and actions associated
with Gutenberg technology. And rather than speak of “the rise
of Protestantism” as a result of typography with its innovation
of the visual text—the same for all—in place of the oral word, it
is more helpful to note how the liturgy of the Catholic Church
itself still carries deep marks of the effects of visual technology
and the break-up of the unity of the senses. “The Elizabethan
world picture” was to become much more visually hierarchical
than anything medieval had ever been, if only because hierarchy