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The Machiavellian mind and the merchant mind are at one in
their simple faith in the power of segmental division to rule all—
in the dichotomy of power and morals and of money and
morals.
* As de Chardin explains in his Phenomenon of Man , new
invention is the interiorization in man of the structures of
earlier technology; and therefore it stockpiles, as it were. What
we are studying here is the interiorization of print technology
and its effect in shaping a new kind of man. De Chardin speaks
of our own day when there are so many new technologies to
interiorize: “Firstly, the power of invention, so rapidly intensified
at the present time by the rationalized recoil of all the forces of
research that it is already possible to speak of a forward leap
of evolution.” (p. 305)