Harold Innis Quotes

The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.

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

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

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

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

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