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The popular mesmerism achieved by uniformity and
repeatability, taught men the miracles of the division of labor
and the creation of world markets. It is these miracles that
Pope anticipates in The Dunciad , for their transforming power
had long affected the mind. The mind now afflicted with the
desire and power to climb by sheer sequential additive toil:
Why all your Toils? Your Sons have learn’d to sing.
How quick Ambition hastes to ridicule!
The Sire is made a Peer, the Son a Fool.
Then follows a decisive passage of explicit comment (ll. 549­
57) on the Gutenberg miracles of applied knowledge and
human transformation:
On some, a Priest succinct in amice white