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more scientifically conducted, and its results to be more
public, and at last in a sense marketable, there has been
a fresh demand for oral instruction.
Wordsworth is describing the rise of centralist examining
which arose from access to decentralized learning. For it was
easy under print conditions for a student to read in areas
unvisited by his examiners. But the principle that the portable,
uniform book creates the centralized uniform exam (in place of
the older oral test) is one that applies at all levels. The printed
word, we shall see, has quite strange organizational effects on
the vernacular. And the eighteenth century business man
whose political arithmetic was based on visual quantity, or the
eighteenth century business man whose speculations were built
on the mechanism of “the hedonistic calculus,” alike relate to
the uniform repeatability of print technology. Yet the