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occultism of his time. It is Joyce’s “Lead kindly Fowl” (foule,
owl, crowd), which we have seen earlier.
As the book market enlarged and the gathering and
reporting of news improved, the nature of authorship and
public underwent the great changes that we accept as normal
today. The book had retained from manuscript times some of
its private and conversational character, as Leibniz indicated in
his evaluation. But the book was beginning to be merged in the
newspaper as the work of Addison and Steele reminds us.
Improved printing technology carried this process all the way by
the end of the eighteenth century and the arrival of the steam
press.
Yet Dudek in Literature and the Press (p. 46) considers
that even after steam power had been applied to printing: