McLuhan on rhetoric

Submitted by mitch on Fri, 2007-02-02 07:50
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Marshall McLuhan in The Gutenberg Galaxy:

For Cicero, wisdom is eloquence because only by eloquence can knowledge be applied to the minds and hearts of men. It is applied knowledge that obsesses the mind of Cicero the Roman as it did the mind of Francis Bacon. p.24

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