Samuel Hartlib, who was exiled in Britain and enthusiastic about social and cultural reforms, wrote in 1641 that "the art of printing will so spread knowledge that the common people, knowing their own rights and liberties, will not be governed by way of oppression".
Benjamin Worsley, Secretary to the Council of Trade from 1650, was a Hartlibian.
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