Excerpt from Books, Culture and Character
i was asked to say something to you about books; but when I Began to collect my thoughts it seemed to me that the subject in which I really wished to speak is not well defined by the word Books.
If you had been invited to listen to a discourse on baskets, you would naturally ask, "Baskets of what?" The basket, in itself, would seem to be a topic so insignificant that you might reasonably object to the wasting of time on it It is a thing which has no worth of its own, but borrows all its useful value from the things which are put into it.
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