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and configuring power of the new technology. His readers have
been befogged by content obsession and the practical benefits
of applied knowledge. He says in a note to Book III, 1. 337:
Do not gentle reader, rest too secure in thy contempt of
the Instruments for such a revolution in learning, or
despise such weak agents as have been described in our
poem, but remember what the Dutch stories somewhere
relate, that a great part of their Provinces was once
overflow’d, by a small opening made in one of their dykes
by a single Water-Rat .
But the new mechanical instrument and its mesmerized
and homogenized servants, the dunces, are irresistible:
In vain, in vain,—The all-composing Hour