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Printing and the Perpetuity of Modern 

 Civilizations. — The subjoined remarks on the 

 influence of printing on the permanency of 

 our modern civilizations are from the able 

 address delivered in August last before the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science, by Professor A. R. Grote, Vice- 

 President of Section B : 



Those who have brought together the 

 story of the ancient civilization of Greece 

 have agreed with unanimity that the separa- 

 tion between the mass of the people and the 

 intellectual portion became at length insur- 

 mountable, and finally led to national de- 

 struction. This makes for our own view, 

 that it was to a defect or incompleteness 

 in the machinery for the dissemination of 

 knowledge that we must ascribe the dying 

 out of the older states. An intellectual 

 aristocracy was established in Greece, which, 

 in order to maintain its superior position, 

 and thus, from natural and selfish motives, 

 endeavored to prevent the spreading of new 

 facts, but it was assisted in this action by 

 the limitations which an ignorance of the 

 art of mechanically duplicating writing 

 threw around it. Philosophers have ex- 

 plained the fall of Greece, by considering it 

 as a necessary step in the progress of hu- 

 manity and the perfection of a future bloom 

 of knowledge. And so in one sense it may 

 be ; but still exactly where the defect lay, 

 and where there is a positive advantage in 

 the conditions of modern civilization, and 

 wherein modern civilization more adequate- 

 ly protects the state, have sometimes escaped 

 them. To understand this fully we must 



