In that country, books are so common that it is really no curiosity to see one.
Newspapers also.

They have a great machine which prints such things by thousands every hour.
"I saw common men, there--men who were neither priests nor princes--who yet absolutely owned the land they tilled.

It was not rented from the church, nor from the nobles.

I am ready to take my oath of this.

In that country you might fall from a third story window three several times, and not mash either a soldier or a priest .-- The scarcity of such people is astonishing.