We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions..

The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to ….

It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health of a c….

Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre..

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

Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way ….

The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the media, and indeed ….

The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of th….

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 rat….

The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Th….

The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms..

Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area ….

Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation….

We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to cre….

The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristi….

Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the thi….

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

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs..