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 rather than the ear.

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

The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched positions involve a continuous, systematic, ruthless destruction of elements of permanence essential to cultural activity.

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.

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

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

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