Gutenberg vs Caxton: should the press guard scripture or spread stories?

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GUTENBERG vs WILLIAM CAXTON go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

GUTENBERG

I set my first pages with the Bible, for a press should first serve the Word that outweighs all others.

WILLIAM CAXTON

And I printed Chaucer in plain English, for a press that only echoes Latin speaks to no one at the market.

GUTENBERG

You chase the vulgar tongue while I gave Europe the very machine that makes your English possible.

WILLIAM CAXTON

Then thank me for what you built, Johannes: I turned your holy invention into a nation that could read itself.

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