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first age of mass production such as struck the United States
in the 1920s with the movies and radio. The same consumer
urge is only now reaching Europe and England after the Second
World War. It is a phenomenon that goes with high-intensity
visual stress and organization of experience.
Typographic man can express but is helpless to read the
configurations of print technology.
* The subject of nationalism and print has been held back
until now lest it usurp the entire book. It will be the easier to
handle the complex of issues now that we have encountered
similar groupings of issues in quite different areas of
experience. The present volume to this point might be regarded
as a gloss on a single text of Harold Innis: “The effect of the
discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of