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vellum, and illumination, and, thanks 
lie to Heaven, the major part of the 
world were still in a blessed state of 
ignorance. But, when the Devil and 
Dr. Faustus put their heads toge¬ 
ther, and invented the cursed and 
abominable art of Printing—when old 
clothes were, by their magic, resusci¬ 
tated into clean white paper — when 
ink, atramental ink, was poured forth 
like the poison from the fangs of some 
venomous monster—when the pos¬ 
terity of the Geese which saved Rome 
thought proper, in their folly, to ruin 
later generations by consenting to be 
plucked — then came the Iron Age, 
which is now at the zenith of its 
