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“Typing is an essential skill, but it can be painful. Some children just don't know where the letters are. Typing a three-page story, when they have to spend minutes hunting for every letter, can take forever. Yet we tend to assume that children can type, partly because quite a lot of us know where quite a lot of the letters are, so we assume that children do, too.”

“Typographic Man wrote the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address. Graphic Man elects the president of the United States. Which of the Ancient Greek forms of government will satisfy and serve the interest of both the former and the latter is a question beyond the boundaries of this book. The preliminary working toward an answer is the recognition that a nation denied knowledge of its past cannot make sense of its present or imagine its future. Human beings deprived of memory lose track of where they’ve been, who they are, and where they might be going: so do the people’s elected representatives, who forget why sovereign nations go to war or how it comes to pass that money doesn’t grow on trees.”

“Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.”

“Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.”