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…

- Harold Innis

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…

- Harold Innis

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 …

- Harold Innis

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

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

- Harold Innis

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

- Harold Innis