Excerpt from A Royal Craft: Being Notes on the History Progress of Printing Progress? In our public elementary schools we teach the history of our own and other countries of the. World. We teach also, but somewhat imperfectly, of the rise, progress, and history of that art which has not only made history, but has made also for liberty of thought and the elevation of humanity. With the advent of the press has dawned a higher civilization, and a. Finer sentiment with more artistic aims. The rude and crude productions of Gutenberg and Caxton have gone ever onward from their inception. Until they have developed into a mighty creative and educative force. The printer is no longer an artist-labourer, neither is he a live machine putting mechanically into operation ideas and methods which obtained generations ago. Synchronously with the mould ing of the national character and his pioneership of civilization the printer has improved himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.