The art of printing

Posted by Mei on April 30, 2003

I am struggling with the following paragraph. Could anybody explain it for me ? Thank you.

He who first shortened the labour of copyists by device of moveable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new democratic world; he had invented the art of printing.

Mei

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