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He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and
observing machine that the world has seen; but, as a
lover, he would have placed himself in a false position. He
never spoke of the softer passions save with a gibe and a
sneer. . . . Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one
of his own high-power lenses, would not be more
disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as
his. (58)
It will become even plainer in the present volume why the
Gutenberg drive to apply knowledge by translation and
uniformity encounters such resistance in the matters of sex
and race.
The process of “uniformatization” in its social and
political bearings is explained by de Tocqueville very clearly in