"Books are the best of things, well used;
abused, among the worst.
What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect?
They are for nothing... but to INSPIRE!" ...So said Emerson and more;
"I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction,
clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite, instead of a system."
abused, among the worst.
What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect?
They are for nothing... but to INSPIRE!" ...So said Emerson and more;
"I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction,
clean out of my own orbit and made a satellite, instead of a system."
from THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
--An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837.
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