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The Pulp and Paper Industry in Canada

Nathan Reich

出版	Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, for the Department of economics and political Science, McGill University, Montreal
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gpJLngEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of paper as a factor in modern civilization. If historians were to rename the previous historical periods, our age should be labelled the age of paper. The entire structure of our civilization is bound up with the availability of large paper supplies. The highly complicated and minutely organized industrial and commercial system, the very existence of our political organizations, the maintenance of our democratic institutions, the widespread, enormous expansion of the press as the basis ofour political system, the institution of popular education as the prerequisite to human progress, in short, all that constitutes modern civilization, is dependent upon a continuousforthcoming of abundant supplies of this commodity. [...].