Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause;
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh’s land befell,
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise;
Thou ever-bubbling spring of endless lies;
Like Eden dread probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee.
William Cowper, from The Progress of Error , 1782.
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