Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08758_Field_TCGG T523.txt

Text File | 1996-04-10 | 916b | 16 lines

Ramus and “applied knowledge,” Father Ong has published an
article, “Ramist Method and the Commercial Mind,” (50) which
makes an admirable approach to the obsession with
quantification in the Renaissance:

     One of the persistent puzzles concerning Peter Ramus
     and his followers is the extraordinary diffusion of their
     works during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
     The general pathway of this diffusion has been well known
     since Waddington’s Ramus  in 1855. It proceeds chiefly
     through bourgeois Protestant groups of merchants and
     artisans more or less tinged with Calvinism. These groups
     are found not only in Ramus’ native France, but especially
     in Germany, Switzerland, the Low Countries, England,
     Scotland, Scandinavia, and New England. Perry Miller’s
     work, The New England Mind: the Seventeenth Century , is