In my English class today we were discussing the turn of the century in literature.  My professor mentioned how throughout different eras, different concepts affected us, mainly that of religion.  We were talking about how by the Renaissance period, people began to look less towards the word of God and more towards newer philosophies. At one point my professor exclaimed, “we are sons and daughters of the Gutenberg revolution!”  Without Gutenberg, this transition form mainly religious writings to more humanistic ones may not have occurred. I found this website which briefly mentions this transition.