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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/we-must-appraise-civilization-in-relation-to-its-territory-and-in/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

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> [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 fact of appraisal appears to be peculiar to certain types of media. A change…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/the-significance-of-a-basic-medium-to-its-civilization-is-difficult/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/the-effect-of-the-discovery-of-printing-was-evident-in-the-savage/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/we-must-appraise-civilization-in-relation-to-its-territory-and-in/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/industrialism-implies-technology-and-the-cutting-of-time-into-precise/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/democracy-will-defeat-the-economist-at-every-turn-on-its-own-genre/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/writing-with-a-simplified-alphabet-checked-the-power-of-custom-of-an/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/the-significance-of-a-basic-medium-to-its-civilization-is-difficult/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/it-is-suggested-that-all-written-works-including-this-one-have/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/the-history-of-canada-has-been-profoundly-influenced-by-the-habits-of/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/canada-emerged-as-a-political-entity-with-boundaries-largely/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/the-middle-ages-burned-its-heretics-and-the-modern-age-threatens-them/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/the-overwhelming-pressure-of-mechanization-evident-in-the-newspaper/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/graham-wallas-has-reminded-us-that-writing-as-compared-with-speaking/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/following-the-invention-of-writing-the-special-form-of-heightened/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/the-full-impact-of-printing-did-not-become-possible-until-the/)

[Harold Innis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-innis/)

> [We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-innis/we-have-not-yet-realized-that-the-indian-and-his-culture-were/)

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