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Excerpt from Workers and Idlers
After eighteen hundred years of Christianity, four hundred years of printing, and one hundred years of invention, we have come to look upon ourselves as the highest type of civilization, 'and far advanced over the barbarians who preceded us in all that tends to make us what men should be. In some respects, this belief is justified The broad and ready diffusion of knowledge by means of the art of printing, has made it possi ble for every one to know that which any one knows; and While, formerly, men of thought eu lightened only their immediate hearers, to-day, they speak to, reason with, and enlighten, not alone those who see and hear them, but all the world besides.
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