Excerpt from Philosophers and Scientists
A serious fact of which we have to take account is that in this restless work-a-day age, the education of most is cut off - finished, just at the age when the mind begins to acquire a real power of assimilating knowledge, a real power of insight. That capacity to discriminate between what is great and enduring and what is trivial and ephemeral comes only with maturity; and at maturity it chiefly happens that our time and energies begin to be absorbed in the imperative problem of making a living. Our reading - at least our serious reading - is stopped just as we are about to enter the Elysian gates, and we are shut out from that broadening education, that inspiration and uplift which comes through a knowledge of the true master works of literature.
It is this serious condition which led Charles Dudley Warner and a distinguished body of the most eminent scholars and writers of the day to co-operate in the construction of the great Library which bears Mr. Warner's name.
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