History · Print Culture and the Modern World
'Tremble, therefore, tyrants of the world! Tremble before the virtual writer!' Whose words are these and what warning is given through them?
- 1A French novelist Mercier of the 19th century who believed in the absolute power of the clergy.
- 2Mercier, an American novelist of the 18th century who believed in the power of print and warned against foreign colonial despotism.
- 3Louis-Sébastien Mercier, a novelist of 18th-century England who gave this warning to the British despots.
- 4Louis-Sébastien Mercier, an 18th-century French novelist who believed the printing press is so powerful that it would sweep despotism away.✓
Correct answer
Louis-Sébastien Mercier, an 18th-century French novelist who believed the printing press is so powerful that it would sweep despotism away.
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