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might be called an itemizing approach to discourse.” (56)
That the new commercial classes took to the itemizing
approach can be documented from many quarters. Its novelty
and oddity provided hilarity on the Elizabethan stage. Ben
Jonson’s Sir Politick Would-Be in Volpone is a would-be
Machiavel, and Jonson naturally links the new statecraft with
the new techniques of visual observation and organization of
action:
I do love
To note and to observe: though I live out,
Free from the active torrent, yet I’d mark
The currents and the passages of things,
For mine own private use; and know the ebbs
And flows of state.