A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

[Nineteenth century poetry and arts] resound with plangent memories of earlier ages, and the murder of time in the name of power and money produced modem archeology and anthropology, and an historical consciousness of the unity of the human family possessed by no other age.
“The Later Innis" Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 60, No 3, Autumn (1953), p 391, reprinted in On the Nature of Media (2016), p 45
Quote #3403
Year: 1953
Chapters: Dropout | LOM 3 – Retrieve | Living Unity | Pattern Recognition
↪ Also at #5249
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