Activity Quote 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…

— 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…

— Harold Innis

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

— Harold Innis

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Harold Innis

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

— 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…

— 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…

— Harold Innis