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The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

— Harold Innis The Bias of Communication (1951)

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The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

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The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.

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Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.

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Property like incest holds the family together.

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