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luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. As Innis
got more insights he abandoned any mere point of view in his
presentation of knowledge. When he interrelates the
development of the steam press with “the consolidation of the
vernaculars” and the rise of nationalism and revolution he is
not reporting anybody’s point of view, least of all his own. He is
setting up a mosaic configuration or galaxy for insight. It was a
prime effect of print in altering human sense ratios, that it
substituted static point of view for insight into causal
dynamics. We shall consider this further on. But Innis makes no
effort to “spell out” the interrelations between the components
in his galaxy. He offers no consumer packages in his later work,
but only do-it-yourself kits, like a symbolist poet or an abstract
painter. Literature and the Press  by Louis Dudek provides a
straight-away perspective picture of the rise of the steam
press, but the effects on language, on war, and on the