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resulting cultural assumptions in the arts and sciences, of such
a new specific ratio as was produced by TV, for example.
Francis Bacon, PR voice for the moderni, had both his feet in
the Middle Ages.
* Throughout Finnegans Wake Joyce specifies the Tower of
Babel as the tower of Sleep, that is, the tower of the witless
assumption, or what Bacon calls the reign of the Idols. The
figure of Francis Bacon has always seemed full of
contradictions. As the PR man for modern science, he has been
found to have both feet firmly planted in the Middle Ages. His
prodigious Renaissance reputation baffles those who can find
nothing scientific in his method. Much more highbrow than the
furious pedagogue Petrus Ramus, he yet shares with Ramus an
extreme visual bias which links him with his relative Roger