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literacy, there could be no market or price system, a factor
which constrains “backward” countries to be “communist,” or
tribal. There is no known means of having our price and
distribution system without long and extensive experience of
literacy. But we are swiftly becoming aware of these matters as
we move into the electronic era. For telegraph, radio and TV do
not tend towards the homogeneous in their effects of print
culture and dispose us to easier awareness on non-print
cultures.
The passion for exact measurement began to dominate the
Renaissance.
* Just as Father Ong in his work on Ramus has provided the
necessary insight into the strange similarities of form and
motive between medieval logicians and Renaissance merchants,