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

The diversity of institutions has made possible the combination of government ownership and private enterprise which has been a further characteristic of Canadian development. Canada has remained fundamentally a product of Europe.

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 civilization, particularly if they thwart the interest of a people in culture, and following Aristotle, the cathartic effects of culture. "It is written but I say unto you" is a powerful directive to Western civilization.

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

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 to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.

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