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merchants and artificers, much less ridiculous, acted
merely from a view to their own interest, and in pursuit of
their own pedlar principles of turning a penny wherever a
penny was to be got. Neither of them had either
knowledge or foresight of that great revolution which the
folly of the one, and the industry of the other, was
gradually bringing about. It is thus that through the
greater part of Europe the commerce and manufacture of
cities, instead of being the effect, have been the cause
and occasion of the improvement and cultivation of the
country. (52)
The French Revolution, long prepared by the
homogenizing print process, as de Tocqueville will show us,
followed the pattern of Ramist reasonings which as Ong
stresses “while seldom advertised as serving the purposes of