You know that your church has always taken a view on these matters very different from ours, from the day that the first printing press was assembled. Your church did not want your holy scriptures in the hands of ordinary people. We felt differently. To us, printing was an avokat ha kodesh, a holy work. Some rabbis even likened the press to an altar. We call it 'writing with many pens' and saw it as furthering the spread of the word that began with Moses on Mount Sinai. So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I will say nothing to the printing house, as my conscience requires of me. Censura praevia or censura repressiva, the effect is the same. Either way, a book is destroyed. Better you do it than have us so intellectually enslaved that we do it for you. Geraldine Brooks
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In the Columbian Exchange, Christopher Columbus found a new world for Europeans to explore and colonize. The Columbian Exchange was a period of history from 1492 until the early 1900s that involved the exchange of goods, ideas, and other forms of culture between Europe and the Americas. The Columbian Exchange introduced a range of infectious diseases to the Americas, leading to epidemics among Native American populations.

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