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The War of Independence of 1776, Innis explains, was the
clash between centre and margin, which is identical with the
conflict between conformity and non-conformity, politics and
literature, in the sixteenth century. And just as “a colony
engaged in the fur trade was not in a position to develop
industries to compete with manufactures of the mother
country,” so the margins also developed a merely consumer
attitude to literature and the arts, such as has lingered until
this century.
The non-conformists inclined to the reader or consumer
side, interpreting the meaning of print to be private and
individual. The conformists inclined to the author-publisher,
ruler of the new force. It may or may not be significant that
most of English literature since printing has been created by
this ruler-oriented minority.