Who declared ‘the printing press is the most powerful engine of progress and public opinion is the force that will sweep despotism away’?

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Louis-Sebastien Mercier

Rousseau

Voltaire

James Lackington

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Louis-Sebastien Mercier, in the 18th century, proclaimed that ‘the printing press is a most powerful engine of progress and public opinion is a force that will sweep despotism away’. Many thinkers believe that books can change the world. And it can liberate society from a system of governance in which absolute power is exercised by an individual and unregulated by legal and constitutional checks. He also announced that ‘tremble therefore tyrants of the world! tremble before the virtual right!’

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