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Excerpt from Fifteenth Century Bibles: A Study in Bibliography
It is considered the most splendid specimen of typography extant. Like the sculpture of Phidias, it sprang into being, without a predecessor, in defiance of the theory of evolution. Its successors number, it may be, No one need dispute about these figures, for more Bibles are now printed daily, than at any previous period, and therefore every day adds to their number by thousands. No other book ever influenced men to bestow their treasures of time, learning and money to print, publish and send it forth by millions. There are Shakespeare Societies and Browning Societies, but their sphere is comparatively narrow and insignificant. All endeavors of every kind to exalt or disseminate published writings serve to show that the Bible as a successful book has no peer. All other books follow at so vast a distance that it shines alone, a sun among the planets. The Bible is the only book for which languages are invented that it may be multiplied in regions where written and printed words were previously unknown.
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