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Typography tended to alter language from a means of
perception and exploration to a portable commodity.
* As for the mere stress on use and practicality, it is not
only Ramus but the entire humanist corps that insists upon
that. From the Sophists to Cicero training in language and
oratory had been accepted as the road to power and top
executive action. The Ciceronian program of encyclopedic
knowledge in the arts and sciences came back with printing.
The essentially dialogue character of scholasticism gave way to
a more extensive program in languages and literature for the
training of the Courtier and the Governor and the Prince. What
we have come to consider as an impossibly genteel curriculum
of authors, languages, and history was in the Renaissance held
necessary for the statesman, on one hand, and the study of
Scripture, on the other. Shakespeare presents (I, i) his Henry