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the individual yet also creates massive groupings by means of
vernacular nationalism. Friedenberg is speaking of a situation
inherent in movable types from the first when he says (p. 54):
We conceive our country as having achieved a position of
leadership and dominance by carefully subordinating
personal and ethnic disparity to the interests of
teamwork in a colossal technical and administrative
enterprise. For us, a personal conformity is a moral
mandate. When we insist on taking a personal stand and
bucking the system, we feel not only anxious but guilty as
well.
Donne’s mention of his “hydroptic immoderate thirst for
humane learning and languages” beset countless men in the
sixteenth century. There was a furious consumer urge in that