Theodore Tilton — a remark

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“Journalism is an immense power, that threatens soon to supersede sermons, lectures, and books.”

A circulating line on the press overtaking older forms of public speech; attribution is popular but unsourced · Commonly attributed; original source not firmly located

About Theodore Tilton

Theodore Tilton

2 October 1835–29 May 1907

Theodore Tilton stands as one of America's most complex literary figures of the nineteenth century—a man whose poetry spoke to universal truths about the human condition while his personal life became entangled in one of the most scandalous trials of the Victorian era. Born on October 2, 1835, in New York City, and…

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