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Show Term "The Public" M AVhnt we understand today by tho H term "the public" did nut' exist durlnff H imtlqulty, ns it presupposes a great 'H number of simultaneous readers of one-. H mid tho same writings, u conditions l that could not he reullzed before tho vl Invention of printing. The first book ;H that may be said to have had n public "H lu the sense as now understood wax H the printed Bible. The essential in- -H strument, however, for tlie formation ,.'- H of "a public," Jonrnnllsm, drd,notap--,'i' ".V'iH pear before the French revolution- '. Jb.- H |