At the first view, wonderful as the discovery is, one hesitates in deciding whether it is not more injurious than useful.

It seems to have introduced into the world, as I said above, an element of infinite inequality.
Guttenberg makes large profits by this invention, and perfects the invention by the profits, until all other copyists are ruined.

As for the public,--the consumer,--it gains but little, for Guttenberg takes care to lower the price of books only just so much as is necessary to undersell all rivals.
But the great Mind which put harmony into the movements of celestial bodies, could also give it to the internal mechanism of society.

We will see the advantages of this invention escaping from the individual, to become forever the common patrimony of mankind.
The process finally becomes known.

Guttenberg is no longer alone in his art; others imitate him.