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53-57.] [Footnote 129: Id._op.

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75.] 'Have you not heard of the peril which threatens the very existence of books?
What are you dreaming of, when now that almost every published book is interdicted, you still think of making new ones?
Here, as I imagine, there is no one who for many years to come will dare to write except on business or to distant friends.

An Index has been issued of the works which none may possess under pain of excommunication; and the number of them is so great that very few indeed are left to us, especially of those which have been published in Germany.