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the most detailed study of Ramism in any such group.
Such groups were moving into more openly influential
positions socially and were improving themselves
intellectually, and Ramism appeals to them as they move
up. Ramus’ works thus enjoyed particular favor not in
highly sophisticated intellectual circles but rather in
elementary or secondary schools or along the fringe
where secondary schooling and university education
meet . . .
What is necessary to understand here is that the key to
any kind of applied knowledge is the translation of a complex of
relations into explicit visual terms. The alphabet itself as
applied to the complex of the spoken word translates speech
into a visual code that can be uniformly spread and
transported. Print had given an intensity to this latent process