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The print-made split between head and heart is the trauma
which affects Europe from Machiavelli till the present.
* What seemed fantastic in the early phases of print and
the isolation of visuality, was that it appeared to create a
comic hypocrisy or split between head and heart. It is
interesting to see how the same split appeared to an Irishman
and an Englishman just two hundred years later, at the end of
the eighteenth century. Here is Edmund Burke, the sentimental
Gael, commenting on the itemizing, calculating spirit in his
Reflections on the Revolution in France :
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the
queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and
surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed
to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above