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retrieving information, not only culture but science also has
shifted its entire base and character. For the educator, as well
as the philosopher, exact knowledge of what this shift means
for learning and the mental process is not necessary.
Well before Gutenberg’s development of printing from
movable types, a great deal of printing on paper by woodcut
had been done. Perhaps the most popular form of this kind of
block printing of text and image had been in the form of the
Biblia Pauperum , or Bibles of the Poor. Printers in this woodcut
sense preceded typographic printers, though by just how long a
period it is not easy to establish, because these cheap and
popular prints, despised by the learned, were not preserved any
more than are the comic books of today. The great law of
bibliography comes into play in this matter of the printing that
precedes Gutenberg: “The more there were, the fewer there