occultism of his time. It is Joyce’s “Lead kindly Fowl” (foule, 
owl, crowd), which we have seen earlier.

     As the book market enlarged and the gathering and 
reporting of news improved, the nature of authorship and 
public underwent the great changes that we accept as normal 
today. The book had retained from manuscript times some of 
its private and conversational character, as Leibniz indicated in 
his evaluation. But the book was beginning to be merged in the 
newspaper as the work of Addison and Steele reminds us. 
Improved printing technology carried this process all the way by 
the end of the eighteenth century and the arrival of the steam 
press.

     Yet Dudek in Literature and the Press  (p. 46) considers 
that even after steam power had been applied to printing: