Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/08782_Field_TCGG T547.txt

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     human speculative inquiry, independent both of
     housekeeping, the concern of each of us in his daily active
     life, and of moral philosophy, the concern of us all for the
     guidance of our inner lives. (p. 10)

     Already Europe was moving so far in the direction of
visualized measurement and quantification of life that it “came
to occupy for the first time a place apart from both the Near
and Far East.” In other words, under manuscript conditions
Europe was not very sharply distinct from the East which was
also a manuscript culture.

     Let us turn a moment from Nef to Ong for confirmation
of the new passion for quantity and measurement, we find that
“the Ramist method appealed primarily to a desire for order,
not to a desire for experimentation. . . . Ramus takes what