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ideas so easily accepted.”
At this point it would be a joy to have a de Tocqueville to
take over the writing of The Gutenberg Galaxy , for his mode of
thought is the one that is here followed so far as possible. He
defines his method perfectly when speaking of the old regime
(p. 136): “I myself have tried to judge it not from my own ideas
but from the feelings which it inspired in those who endured
and then destroyed it.”
Nationalism depends upon or derives from the “fixed point
of view” that arrives with print, perspective, and visual
quantification. But a fixed point of view can be collective or
individual or both, thus causing great diversity of clash and
outlook. Hayes writes in his Historical Evolution of Modern
Nationalism (p. 135): “By 1815 liberal nationalism was a fairly