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Print created national uniformity and government centralism,
but also individualism and opposition to government as such.
* At this point of reduction of all language to one mode,
we are not really disengaged from the original meaning of print
in transforming the vernaculars into mass media of nationalist
significance. It will repay us to dip more than a century behind
Sprat in order to follow the contours of the original
manifestation of print as a means of uniformity.
Karl Deutsch writes in his Nationalism and Social
Communication (pp. 78­9):
a nationality is a people pressing to acquire a measure of
effective control over the behavior of its members. . . .
nationalities turn into nations when they acquire power to