Select the correct text in the passage. In which sentence does the author imply that the invention of printing with movable type led to greater
intellectual awakening?
excerpt from "The Printing Press"
The early Greeks and Romans used for their books tablets of ivory or metal or more commity, tablets of
wood taken from the beech or fir tree which was then followed by a material called parchment. This was made
from the skins of animals, particularly sheep or lambs. About the end of the ninth century or the beginning of
the tenth, after Christ, parchment and vellum as material for books gave way to paper. Initially paper produced,
was made of cotton, but during the twelfth century it was produced from linen. It is not known who invented
linen paper, but its introduction was the first great catalyst to book making. About the beginning of the
fifteenth century after Christ, there came over the world an enormous wave of intellectual awakening.
The human intellect began to awake, to stretch itself, to go forth and conquer, which hence brought about
the invention of printing. Before this time, ever since man began to record his thoughts, whether on plank,
stone, or papyrus, on bark of tree, skin of animal, or tablet of wax or paper, every letter was made by hand. The
process was necessarily slow, books were rare and costly, and only the few could have them. But with the
advent of a process that would multiply books and make them cheap, learning was made accessible to the
legion. Before the invention of printing with movable, metal types, a kind of block printing was used. The words
or letters were carved on a block of wood; the block was applied to paper, silk, cloth, or vellum, and thus
impressions were made.
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