A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

This job must be conducted on every front – every phase of the press, book-rackets, music, cinema, education, economics. Of course, points of reference must always be made. That is, the examples of real art and prudence must be seized, when available, as paradigms of future effort. In short, the methods of F.R. Leavis and Wyndham Lewis applied with all the energy and order denied them from faith and philosophy – These can serve to educate a huge public, both Catholic and non-Catholic, to resist the swift obliteration of the person which is going on.
Undated letter to an unclear recipient, from the mid-1940s, quoted in W. Terrence Gordon, Marshall McLuhan: Escape into Understanding (1997), pp 132-133
Year: 1940
Chapter: Wake Them Up!
Compiled by William Kuhns
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