Abstract
WALTER J. ONG The author of over fifty articles on literary, religious, and social subjects, as w'ell as two books on Renaissance intellectual history and two on modern Catholic problems, Father Ong, S.J., is a professor at Saint Louis University, from which be holds the S.T.L. and M.A. degrees. His Ph.D. is from Harvard, whose Press published in 1958 his two books concerned with Ramus. He has presented some of the ideas in this article to a meeting of the Greater St. Lozis Council of Teachers of English.