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The state, being controller of all the implements of production, a private press would be as illegal as the dies used by a forger. Nobody could issue a book, a newspaper, or even a leaflet, unless the use of a state press were allowed him by the state authorities, together with the disposal of the labour of the requisite number of compositors.
This, he goes on to argue, will, despite all my objections, be found to depend on ordinary manual labour, of which the labour of the hands of the compositors is that which concerns us most. Nothing, according to him, can be more evident than this.
'Scandalous! said Laud, 'shocking! to tell men in the seventeenth century, as a biblical rule, that they positively must commit adultery! The brother compositors of this drunken biblical reviser, being too honorable to betray the individual delinquent, the Star Chamber fined the whole 'chapel. Now, the copyists of MSS. were as certain to be sometimes drunk as this compositor famous by his act utterly forgotten in his person whose crime is remembered the record of whose name has perished.
Death entered the home of each of the staff of seven missionaries and carried off wife or children. An earthquake of unusual violence alarmed the natives. Dr. Carey had buried a grandson, and was at his weekly work in the college at Calcutta. The sun had just set on the evening of the 11th March 1812, and the native typefounders, compositors, pressmen, binders, and writers had gone.
It was a shade cooler in the press-room than the office, so I sat there, while the type ticked and clicked, and the night-jars hooted at the windows, and the all but naked compositors wiped the sweat from their foreheads, and called for water.
The four first documents were entirely in the handwriting of the President, and here and there some erasures might be noticed. The compositors were in waiting.
This department will be extended to greater usefulness as conveniences arise, by apprenticing the girls or employing them directly in trades beyond the limits of the class-room, where employers will receive them, or where women could be consistently engaged as, for instance, in the work of compositors, ticket-writers, embossers, &c. &c.
The letters, two W's, were so skilfully entwined, that even a compositor and compositors are people who can read almost anything would have been puzzled to decipher it. The letters were gilt, riveted on steel, and the wearers of the button-brooches were very soon dubbed by the non-recipients, 'Mr. Waffles' sheep.
There, as elsewhere, inequalities of talent and skill are to be found. When business slackens, compositors and pressmen divide up their labor; all monopolists are detested as no better than robbers or traitors. There is a philosophy in the action of these printers, to which neither economists nor legists have ever risen.
Returning to compositors, and what they note and do not note, if the fresh author has happened to feel it a rather damping forecast of his reception by the public that those who have had the first and closest contact with his efforts are not in any way aroused by their remarkable originality, yet one who may have had opportunities of taking a wide view of the functions of the compositor will not wonder that, like the deaf adder, he systematically closes his ear to the voice of the charmer.
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