A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

…a-historical literary study “in depth” suggests the new power of the inner landscape of the symbolists. They had paralleled the discoveries of Claude Bernard in internal medicine – le milieu interiere. No matter how the specialist of language or science strives to isolate his studies, he will find them resonating with the patterns and intensities of fields remote from his own. And is not the ground of existence of the common and shared measure of the language itself a main reason for this shared consciousness?
“Roles, Masks and Performances” (1971), p 520
Year: 1971
↪ Also at #3570, #3594
Compiled by William Kuhns
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