The uniformity and repeatability of print created the "political arithmetic” of the seventeenth century and the "hedonistic calculus” of the eighteenth. (Marshall McLuhan)

The uniformity and repeatability of print created the "political arithmetic” of the seventeenth century and the "hedonistic calculus” of the eighteenth.

Marshall McLuhan

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