“While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowlege can never be lost.”

—  Thomas Jefferson

Letter to William Green Mumford (18 June 1799) http://www.princeton.edu/~tjpapers/munford/munford.html
1790s

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