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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... town population has multiplied in the last hundred years from 3 to approxi- mately 50 per cent . For the third or fourth time , the city is becoming the dominant factor in the world's history . The city- states of Greece rose and fell ...
... town population has multiplied in the last hundred years from 3 to approxi- mately 50 per cent . For the third or fourth time , the city is becoming the dominant factor in the world's history . The city- states of Greece rose and fell ...
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... town and colleges . Indeed , he had a very noble old age , and grew daily better known ; so that his fame was heard of in the cities of the plains . Many and many an invitation to be sure , he had , but nothing could tempt him from his ...
... town and colleges . Indeed , he had a very noble old age , and grew daily better known ; so that his fame was heard of in the cities of the plains . Many and many an invitation to be sure , he had , but nothing could tempt him from his ...
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... town ? There is a Majesty's gaol and gallows in every one , " and it is as long since the Public Libraries Act was passed , and yet the lack of libraries is still one of the most startling deficiencies in these islands . We have given ...
... town ? There is a Majesty's gaol and gallows in every one , " and it is as long since the Public Libraries Act was passed , and yet the lack of libraries is still one of the most startling deficiencies in these islands . We have given ...
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... towns that dot the land lie the possibilities for many such palaces of the people , and in many - very many — of such communities today exist the beginnings that will combine and cement their many - sided interests . This great world ...
... towns that dot the land lie the possibilities for many such palaces of the people , and in many - very many — of such communities today exist the beginnings that will combine and cement their many - sided interests . This great world ...
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... town or state or country , and lead on to far inter- national vistas of world - wide life and destiny . Society has an interest in this beyond the rights of the individual . The greatest waste to society is not that which comes from ...
... town or state or country , and lead on to far inter- national vistas of world - wide life and destiny . Society has an interest in this beyond the rights of the individual . The greatest waste to society is not that which comes from ...
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