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Dantzig explains why the language of number had to be
increased to meet the needs created by the new technology of
letters.
* The unremitting pressure on society to discover accurate
means of quantification is in ratio to the individualist pressures
in the society. Print intensified the tendency to individualism as
all historians have testified. It also provided the means of
quantification in its very technology. The monumental work of
William I. Thomas and Florian Znanlecki, The Polish Peasant in
Europe and America , is indispensable to any serious analyst of
the effects of print culture on peasant culture. They write (vol.
I, p. 182):
But of course when once the egotistic attitude is
introduced into economic relations, these relations have