text:  There were many no doubt to prophesy as on occasion of every new invention that it was all very well for a novelty; but that the thing would not and could not last! How were the poor copyists to get their living if their occupation was taken from them? How were so many monasteries to be maintained which had subsisted on _manuscriptum_? And then what prince in his right senses would allow a printing-press to be set up in his dominions--a source of sedition and heresy--an implement of disaffection and schism? The free towns perhaps might foster this pernicious art and certain evilly-disposed potentates wink at the establishment of type-founderies in their states