"[The reading and thinking] class has immensely increased. Owing to the
silent revolution which the newspaper has wrought, this class has come
in this country to take in all classes. Look into the morning
trains...with them, enters the car the humble priest of politics,
finance, philosophy, and religion in the shape of the newsboy....Two
pence a head his bread of knowledge costs, and instantly the entire
rectangular assembly, fresh from their breakfast, are bending as one man
to their second breakfast."
R.W. Emerson, 1854.
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