The Library Miscellany..., כרך 1,מהדורה 21912 |
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עמוד 32 - Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books.
עמוד 70 - Mercury should never have my vote ; because I think it makes the multitude too familiar with the actions and counsels of their superiors, too pragmatical and censorious, and gives them not only an itch, but a kind of colourable right and license to be meddling with the government.
עמוד 32 - We may make a library, if we do but rightly use it, a true paradise on earth, a garden of Eden without its one drawback; for all is open to us, including, and especially, the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, for which we are told that our first mother sacrificed all the Pleasures of Paradise.
עמוד 55 - The library is the reservoir of literature, a collection of books, but it is something more, it comes to have identity, a self of its own beyond the sum of all Its books, when, by the fusing of the whole under the vital power of the minds that gather and order it, it becomes, in the Shakespearian phrase embodied in my title, "A leaven'd and prepared choice.
עמוד 32 - ... a happy man, unless, indeed, you put into his hands a most perverse selection of books. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history ; with the wisest, the wittiest, with the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters who have adorned humanity.
עמוד 56 - Is Clark's name really, truly Champ?" "Can you lend me a postage stamp?" "Have you the rimes of Edward Lear?" "What wages do they give you here?" "What dictionary is the best?
עמוד 55 - ... sacrifice, the making and achievement of souls." The public for whom the library exists has little conception or comprehension of its power. How shall such publicity as will give this knowledge of it be given? Such publicity should make clear the larger aspects of the library's service, showing that the life of any society is "an indivisible inheritance" and the welfare of all made or marred by the condition and service of each one.
עמוד 55 - The library is almost never the goal but to many it may be the starting point whence they go forth "to strength and endeavor, love and sacrifice, the making and achievement of souls.
עמוד 56 - At times behind a desk he sits, At times about the room he flits, Folks interrupt his perfect ease By asking questions such as these: "How tall was prehistoric man?
עמוד 54 - ... web of experience is continuous; he cannot distinguish his part from that of others, and the more he realizes the continuity the less he cares about the separateness of the contribution to it. ... It is impossible to overrate the co-operative element in experience." Does it not appear then that the highest possible service to the public is service to the individual, in giving to the individual stimulus and opportunity for the fullest, most diverse, most perfect development, creating thus a world...