Understanding McLuhan/Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso/pc/mcluhan.dxr/09028_Field_TCGG T793.txt

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‘Concatenated’ things: world of the catena , of pure
determinism. Spontaneity, liberty, piety have no part in it.”
(99) Having reduced knowledge to a merely visual mode
of sequence, “nothing can assure us of one instant’s being
continued in another; nothing can guarantee to us that a
bridge will be built between this instant and the following
instant. . . . This is the strongest anxiety of all; the ‘terror,’ as
Descartes calls it; the terror of failure in time  against which
there is no recourse except by a veritable leap, to God.” (100)
Poulet later (p. 357) describes this “leap”:

     In this manner the idea of God reappears to Descartes.
Long neglected by the primary consciousness absorbed in the
Òscience admirable ,” it reappears in this spontaneous act of the
secondary consciousness given to him by his dream. From this
moment, so to speak, a change of atmosphere will occur in