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only organizing power in the economic sphere.
The assumptions latent in typographic segmentation,
and in applied knowledge by the method of fragmenting of
crafts and the specializing of social tasks, these assumptions
were the more acceptable in the degree that typography
enlarged its markets. The same assumptions presided over the
formation of Newtonian space and time and mechanics. So
literature, industry, and economics were easily accommodated
within the Newtonian sphere. Those who questioned these
assumptions were simply denying the facts of science. Now
that Newton is no longer synonymous with science, we can
meditate on the dilemmas of the self-regulating economy and
the hedonistic calculus with light hearts and clear heads. But
eighteenth century man was locked into a closed visual system
that had enveloped him he knew not how. So he proceeded,