Alexander Monro Quotes

United Kingdom, Founder
September 19, 1697 – July, 10, 1767.

Alexander Monro was the founder of Edinburgh Medical School. To distinguish him as the first of three generations of physicians of the same name, he is known as primus.

Paper has been the evangelist of many of the convictions that shaped history, carrying them to distant lands or simply to a groundswell of people who could never otherwise have absorbed them. Propagandist, tyrant, democratizer, tool, inventor, magician and technician all in one, paper’s power lies in its absence of personality. Quietly, inexpensively and often slowly, it has seeped around the world, and history’s most galvanizing ideas have hitched a lift on its surface.

Alexander Monro
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Just as paper allowed authors a more independent voice and a higher word count, so it also enabled them to listen to the voices of many others, even those hundreds of miles away.

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