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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... movement in population implies , must be reckoned with everywhere . Greater New York has a popula- tion exceeding that of any state in the Union except its own . Chicago has within its city limits more peo- ple than any of forty states ...
... movement in population implies , must be reckoned with everywhere . Greater New York has a popula- tion exceeding that of any state in the Union except its own . Chicago has within its city limits more peo- ple than any of forty states ...
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... movement has on the whole proved to be . Any such admission bodes but ill for the future of this land . It means that the number of men who feel an ownership in the land , in houses , in the govern- ment must decrease . And therein lies ...
... movement has on the whole proved to be . Any such admission bodes but ill for the future of this land . It means that the number of men who feel an ownership in the land , in houses , in the govern- ment must decrease . And therein lies ...
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... movement . Not only in great hives of industry , where thousands congregate in daily toil , but in the small industrial hamlets and in the rural towns that dot the land lie the possibilities for many such palaces of the people , and in ...
... movement . Not only in great hives of industry , where thousands congregate in daily toil , but in the small industrial hamlets and in the rural towns that dot the land lie the possibilities for many such palaces of the people , and in ...
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... movement . Its beginning was prompted by a wish for technical instruction . Soon these mechanics ' insti- tutes grew into social institutions , with collections of books as a secondary interest . The institutes increased enormously in ...
... movement . Its beginning was prompted by a wish for technical instruction . Soon these mechanics ' insti- tutes grew into social institutions , with collections of books as a secondary interest . The institutes increased enormously in ...
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