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edge far beyond the limitations or the quill pen could the Dark Ages of Europe fully blossom into the Renaissance.
Here in America, our early printers became the pamphleteers who spread the words of freedom among the Colonies, and often paid for their heraldry' with wrecked shops and burned presses. , Today the printing industry is still providing the means to make Americans the best-informed citizens in the world ,and in this good work, Virginia is well known. Printing is the Commonwealth’s tbir'd largest industry in number of establishments and fourth largest in volume added by manufacture.
This stirring record, achieved by an industry which still maintains itself as a group of independent individual craftsmen, warrants our recognition.”
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