Dear Sirs,
Many times have I enjoyed this journal, with it's simulating discussions of how Alexander's Campaigns and many other great events of antiquity may have gone in contrary directions if so decreed by fate, and many of you have greatly enjoyed my Historical Romances about a English victory in the Hundred Year War. But of late I have been given to thinking that the history of our Christendom was shaped by more than the deeds of noble lords and their knights, and how the social order of mankind may be upset in more ways than the raging of the uncouth mobs.
Thus, I ask the editor and the readers of this fine publication to consider how the order of our civilisation may have been upset if marvellous devices, in the manner of the lauded printing press, had been built capable of replicating and improving upon the works of the hardy artisan in such a manner as to make the artisan no longer a skilled workman but merely a operator of such devices. Surely such a thing, while fantastical, would cause great chaos in the fabric of our beloved country, and indeed throughout the whole world even unto Cathay. Why, such devices would surely be the doom of the old order, and bring about a whole new society. So I ask you, dear readers, to send in your suggestions as to how such devices would change the shape of our world.
PS: I kindly ask the editor to refrain from placing my letter in the Myths, Gods and Beasts section. Such a thing would demean the seriousness of my question.
Many times have I enjoyed this journal, with it's simulating discussions of how Alexander's Campaigns and many other great events of antiquity may have gone in contrary directions if so decreed by fate, and many of you have greatly enjoyed my Historical Romances about a English victory in the Hundred Year War. But of late I have been given to thinking that the history of our Christendom was shaped by more than the deeds of noble lords and their knights, and how the social order of mankind may be upset in more ways than the raging of the uncouth mobs.
Thus, I ask the editor and the readers of this fine publication to consider how the order of our civilisation may have been upset if marvellous devices, in the manner of the lauded printing press, had been built capable of replicating and improving upon the works of the hardy artisan in such a manner as to make the artisan no longer a skilled workman but merely a operator of such devices. Surely such a thing, while fantastical, would cause great chaos in the fabric of our beloved country, and indeed throughout the whole world even unto Cathay. Why, such devices would surely be the doom of the old order, and bring about a whole new society. So I ask you, dear readers, to send in your suggestions as to how such devices would change the shape of our world.
PS: I kindly ask the editor to refrain from placing my letter in the Myths, Gods and Beasts section. Such a thing would demean the seriousness of my question.
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