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printed book represents a rich composite of previous cultural
inventions. The total effort embodied in the illustrated book in
print offers a striking example of the variety of separate acts of
invention that are requisite to bring about a new technological
result.
The psychic and social consequences of print included an
extension of its fissile and uniform character to the gradual
homogenization of diverse regions with the resulting
amplification of power, energy, and aggression that we
associate with new nationalisms. Psychically, the visual
extension and amplification of the individual by print had many
effects. Perhaps as striking as any other is the one mentioned
by Mr. E. M. Forster, who, when discussing some Renaissance
types, suggested that “the printing press, then only a century
old, had been mistaken for an engine of immortality, and men