Culture Quote by Harold Innis

“We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.” quote by Harold Innis — Download Open image

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

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The effect of the discovery of printing was evident in the savage religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Application of power to…

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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…

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

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

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Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and…

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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…

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It is suggested that all written works, including this one, have dangerous implications to the vitality of an oral tradition and to the health…

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The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat…

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Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending…

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

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The overwhelming pressure of mechanization evident in the newspaper and the magazine, has led to the creation of vast monopolies of communication. Their entrenched…

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Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the…

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