Reinstate something to something
I can not understand the meaning of the highlighted sentence. Can anybody help me please:
1. What does "reinstate something to something" mean? Does it mean "to return some property to something"?
2. What does "extended only as far as the human voice could carry" mean and is it referring to "the civic order"?
Context:
Michael Kimmelman, an art critic for the New York Times, heralded the Occupy Wall Street “movement” in Zuccotti Park as a re-emergence of the Aristotelian polis, in that it succeeded in reinstating the importance of a “proper city” and “face-to-face conversation” to the civic order that, in antiquity, extended only as far as the human voice could carry. On the one hand it appears that Kimmelman was correct; he invoked Kent State in 1970 and Tahrir Square in 2011 as similar realizations of the ideal polis situated in public space. Yet the laptops and smartphones that the Zuccotti Park protesters frequently recharged at generators or “media centers” in the park complicated any notion of the primacy of the place of this park in New York to the discussions that marked the protest.
Top answer
1. Yes. 2.
- 1.
- Yes.
- 2.
- , there was no means of long-distance communication such as the telephone.
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1. Yes.
2. In those days, conversations could only be conducted within earshot; i.e., there was no means of long-distance communication such as the telephone.
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