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For who could be taught the knowledge of experience from paper? since paper has the property to produce lazy and sleepy people, who are haughty and learn to persuade themselves and to fl y without wings …. Therefore the most fundamental thing is to hasten to experience.

—Theophrastus von Hohenheim, called Paracelsus (1493–1541)

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WHY WRITE A BOOK? FROM LIVED EXPERIENCE TO THE WRITTEN WORD IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE প্রবন্ধটি লেখার মুখবন্ধ হিসেবে