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Turner: But it is just simply a press that you are asking me for, Master Hans!
Gutenberg: Yes, it is a press, certainly, but a press from which shall soon flow in inexhaustible streams the most abundant and most marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to relieve the thirst of men! Through it, God will spread His word; a spring of pure truth shall flow from it; like a new star it shall scatter the darkness of ignorance and become a cause of light hithertofore unknown to shine amongst men!

Johannes Gutenberg

God suffers in the great multitudes whom his sacred word cannot reach.

Johannes Gutenberg

Religious truth is captive in a small number of manuscript books, which guard the common treasure, instead of diffusing it. Let us break the seal which holds the holy things; give wings to the truth that by means of speech, no longer written at great expense by the hand that wearies itself, but multiplied as the air by an unwearied machine, it may fly to seek every soul born into the world!

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg

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Born: 1400

Died: February 12, 1468 (aged 68)

Bio: Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.

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