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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... volume herewith presented . The main purpose in collecting them in the present form is to convey their purposes to the friends who like to remember the mind out of which they grew- and to perpetuate to others a memory of that burning ...
... volume herewith presented . The main purpose in collecting them in the present form is to convey their purposes to the friends who like to remember the mind out of which they grew- and to perpetuate to others a memory of that burning ...
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... you recall the house- hold of the Tullivers ' when misfortune came upon it , and the change which a few well - thumbed volumes made in one of its members : " The new life was terrible to Maggie - Maggie THE PROBLEM OF THE CITIES 7.
... you recall the house- hold of the Tullivers ' when misfortune came upon it , and the change which a few well - thumbed volumes made in one of its members : " The new life was terrible to Maggie - Maggie THE PROBLEM OF THE CITIES 7.
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... volumes a year were circulated . Charles Knight issued his penny encyclopedia , Robert and William Chambers led the way for inexpensive books , the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge came into existence . Industrial England was for ...
... volumes a year were circulated . Charles Knight issued his penny encyclopedia , Robert and William Chambers led the way for inexpensive books , the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge came into existence . Industrial England was for ...
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... volume , and in his brain germinates the seed that blossoms into a great invention ; in a chance hour of reading , a third finds in a page , a phrase , a word , the inspiration whose expression sets aflame the world . A master pen has ...
... volume , and in his brain germinates the seed that blossoms into a great invention ; in a chance hour of reading , a third finds in a page , a phrase , a word , the inspiration whose expression sets aflame the world . A master pen has ...
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... volumes with gray - paper backs and dingy labels - the volumes of an old encyclopedia which he had never disturbed . It would at least be a novelty to disturb them . They were on the highest shelf , and he stood on a chair to get them ...
... volumes with gray - paper backs and dingy labels - the volumes of an old encyclopedia which he had never disturbed . It would at least be a novelty to disturb them . They were on the highest shelf , and he stood on a chair to get them ...
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