Answer:
(i)
Print created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas, and introduced a
new world of debate and discussion.
(ii) Even those who disagreed with
established authorities could now print and circulate their ideas.
(iii) Through the printed message, they
could persuade people to think differently and move them to action.
(iv) There was a common conviction that books
were a means of spreading progress and enlightenment.
(v) Many believed that books could change the
world, liberate society from despotism and tyranny and herald a time when
reason and intellect would rule.
(vi) Mercier, a novelist was so convinced of the
power of print in bringing enlightenment and destroying the basis of despotisms
that he proclaimed 'Tremble, therefore, tyrants of the world! Tremble before
the virtual writer'.
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