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nonliterate world celebrated by Mircea Eliade in The Sacred and
the Profane .
Martinus Scriblerus in his notes to The Dunciad reflects on
how much more difficult it is to write an epic about the
numerous scribblers and industrious hacks of the press than
about a Charlemagne, a Brute, or a Godfrey. He then mentions
the need for a satirist “to dissuade the dull and punish the
wicked,” and looks at the general situation that has brought on
the crisis:
We shall next declare the occasion and the cause
which moved our Poet to this particular work. He lived in
those days when (after providence had permitted the
Invention of Printing as a scourge for the Sins of the
learned) Paper also became so cheap, and printers so