Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
I had started to feel that somewhere in the second half of the 20th century, the idea of page-turning as a good thing had been lost. You were getting books that were the equivalent of absolutely beautifully prepared dishes of food that didn't taste like anything much.
Books are a finer world within the world.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Books allow you to see the world through the eyes of others.
Books are humanity in print.
As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.
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