…to this aspect, that the work of people like Innocent Havelock, Havelock's preface to Plato sort of volume, and the work of Barfield, in a book called Saving the Appearances, have drawn attention to the fact that with the rise of phonetic literacy, with…

…scientific or unscientific. It's just human. People don't like anything new, anything that requires adjustment. There's a book by Owen Barfield called Saving the Appearances in which he points out that one of the peculiarities of our Western world is that…

…grown on this wonderful power of Western man to refuse to be involved in the world he lives in. Detachment. Objectivity. And Barfield is ably seconded by Eric Havelock in his preface to Plato. Havelock does this wonderful study of how tribal man moved…