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IV Meanwhile, there had appeared in connection with this new institution, "The Press," a certain factor of the utmost importance: Capitalist also in origin, and, therefore, inevitably exhibiting all the poisonous vices of Capitalism as its effect flourished from more to more. LEAN MEANWHILE THERE HAD APPEARED IN CONNECTION WITH THIS NEW INSTITUTION THE PRESS A CERTAIN FACTOR OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE CAPITALIST ALSO IN ORIGIN AND THEREFORE INEVITABLY EXHIBITING ALL THE POISONOUS VICES OF CAPITALISM AS ITS EFFECT FLOURISHED FROM MORE TO MORE
 the main written for those who had leisure; those who for the most part had some travel, and those who had a smattering, at least, of the Humanities. The matter appearing in the newspapers was often _written by_ men of less facilities. But the people who wrote them, wrote them under the knowledge that their audience was of the sort I describe. To this day in the healthy remnant of our old State, in the country villages, much of this tradition survives. The country folk in my own neighbourhood can read as well as I can; but they prefer to talk among themselves when they are at leisure, or, at the most, to seize in a few moments the main items of news about the war; they prefer this, I say, as a habit of mind, to the poring over square yards of printed matter which (especially in the Sunday papers) are now food for their fellows in the town. That is because in the country a man has true neighbours, whereas the towns are a dust of isolated beings, mentally (and often physically) starved.  CHAPTER FOUR OF THE FREE PRESS BY HILAIRE BELLOC RECORDING BY SHAHN MC
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