Is it true that Martin Luther said that “The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress and public opinion and a force that will sweep despotism away.”?

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The above statement is False.
Louise-Sebastien Mercier in France declared: ‘The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress, and public opinion is the force that will sweep despotism away.’ He was a novelist in the eighteenth century.
By the middle of the eighteenth century, many people thought that literature had the power to transform the world, free society from dictatorship and tyranny, and usher in an era of reason and intellect. The heroes in several of Mercier's books are transformed through reading.
Louise-Sebastien Mercier said that “The printing press is the most powerful engine of progress and public opinion and a force that will sweep despotism away.

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