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We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved.

Harold Innis's Popular Quotes

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

- Harold Innis

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…

- Harold Innis

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…

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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…

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

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

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

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

- Harold Innis