Before computers came along, before there was a telephone. Scribes sat over parchment and labored intently. With quill and Inkwell they lay down a foundation, preserving and sharing knowledge. In Scrolls and books they repeated and passed on things that were thought of importance. Records were kept and events were recorded for posterity, so that others might look back and see through the written word what others had seen. Many fought against this because they favored ignorance and darkness, but the written word still moved on. Even when it was called heresy and costs those who believed in it their lives, the dedication to the preservation and expansion of knowledge did not stop. So it is by the written word that we rose out of Darkness and remove the shackles of ignorance to step into the light of knowledge and understanding.