“The Greek “point of view” in both art and chronology has little in common with ours but was much like that of the Middle Ages.”

—  Marshall McLuhan

Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 64

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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980

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