There Is No Escaping From

Typography Fostered The Modern Idea Of Individuality, But It Destroyed The Medieval Sense Of Community And Integration.

There Is No Escaping From Ourselves. The Human Dilemma Is As It Has Always Been, And We Solve Nothing Fundamental By Cloaking Ourselves In Technological Glory.

As A Culture Moves From Orality To Writing To Printing To Televising, Its Ideas Of Truth Move With It.

The Reader Must Come Armed , In A Serious State Of Intellectual Readiness. This Is Not Easy Because He Comes To The Text Alone. In Reading, One's Responses Are Isolated, One'sintellect Thrown Back On Its Own Resourses. To Be Confronted By The Cold Abstractions Of Printed Sentences Is To Look Upon Language Bare, Without The Assistance Of Either Beauty Or Community. Thus, Reading Is By Its Nature A Serious Business. It Is Also, Of Course, An Essentially Rational Activity.

The Key To All Fanatical Beliefs Is That They Are Self-confirming....(some Beliefs Are) Fanatical Not Because They Are "false", But Because They Are Expressed In Such A Way That They Can Never Be Shown To Be False.