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possible by the isolation of the visual sense by means of
alphabet and typography. Perhaps it cannot be said too often.
This illusion may have been a good or a bad thing. But there
can only be disaster arising from unawareness of the
causalities and effects inherent in our own technologies.
In the later seventeenth century there is a considerable
amount of alarm and revulsion expressed concerning the
growing quantity of printed books. The first hopes for a great
reform of human manners by means of the book had met
disappointment, and in 1680 Leibniz was writing:
I fear we shall remain for a long time in our present
confusion and indigence through our own fault. I even
fear that after uselessly exhausting curiosity without
obtaining from our investigations any considerable gain