When the print revolution occurred 400 years ago, human beings lost a certain mental capacity, including a sense … - Doris Lessing

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There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

Doris Lessing

When the print revolution occurred 400 years ago, human beings lost a certain mental capacity, including a sense of memory. In Africa today, you meet people who still carry everything in their heads, the way we used to. We rely on telephone books, address books. We have to look up everything.

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