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… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
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. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Industrialism implies technology and the cutting of time into precise fragments suited to the needs of the engineer and the accountant. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the media, and… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs. — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
