Library IdealsOpen Court Publishing Company, 1918 - 78 páginas WISCONSIN, a true cradle of freedom and successful government, has fostered several librarians who were true humanists. Dr. Peckham was one. Dr. Thwaites was another. Henry E. Legler was unlike either of these, but greater than either in his continued and unabated activity for the good of the people. Once, on being complimented for his splendid work in natural history and his persistence in the pursuit of scientific facts, Dr. Peckham remarked: "Oh, yes, but the facts have no value in themselves. They merely build up the groundwork of the ideas, and help you climb to the point of view where the deeper aspects of the subject spread out before you like a landscape beneath a mountain-top." Mr. Legler's activity in behalf of libraries will support the same explanation. He seemed always immersed in detail, always planning some movement and carrying it into effect by his peculiar, dynamic persistence. But he who observed the man kindly and closely cannot have failed to have noticed that there was a distinct Beyond illumining and overshadowing it all. There was a dream to come true, a vision to be unfolded. The dream and vision were in the man's speech and eye. He lived under a prophecy. |
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... dream was in his eye, inspiration was in his speech and manner. Library work was the means in his power of making his fellow-men ever more free and happy, ever more master of themselves, ever more capable of being guided, not by fear ...
... dream was in his eye, inspiration was in his speech and manner. Library work was the means in his power of making his fellow-men ever more free and happy, ever more master of themselves, ever more capable of being guided, not by fear ...
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... dream to come true , a vision to be unfolded . The dream and vision were in the man's speech and eye . He lived under a prophecy . It is not for us to estimate whether this prophecy became fulfilled in his life as one of us . But it is ...
... dream to come true , a vision to be unfolded . The dream and vision were in the man's speech and eye . He lived under a prophecy . It is not for us to estimate whether this prophecy became fulfilled in his life as one of us . But it is ...
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... dream was in his eye , inspiration was in his speech and manner . Library work was the means in his power of making his fellow - men ever more free and happy , ever more master of themselves , ever more capable of being guided , not by ...
... dream was in his eye , inspiration was in his speech and manner . Library work was the means in his power of making his fellow - men ever more free and happy , ever more master of themselves , ever more capable of being guided , not by ...
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... dream and Sehnsucht that comes to the dreaming country boy , Robert Louis Stevenson has pictured with his wonder touch in his idyl of the miller's boy . Something , too , he has suggested in his ending of the story : WILL O ' THE MILL ...
... dream and Sehnsucht that comes to the dreaming country boy , Robert Louis Stevenson has pictured with his wonder touch in his idyl of the miller's boy . Something , too , he has suggested in his ending of the story : WILL O ' THE MILL ...
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... dreams , with her hunger for love . Her father no longer stroked her hair as he used to do when she sat down in her low stool beside him at night , though he was more dependent on her than ever . Tom , weary and full of his new business ...
... dreams , with her hunger for love . Her father no longer stroked her hair as he used to do when she sat down in her low stool beside him at night , though he was more dependent on her than ever . Tom , weary and full of his new business ...
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