It Is Much Simpler To Buy Books

Even In Populous Districts, The Practice Of Medicine Is A Lonely Road Which Winds Up-hill All The Way And A Man May Easily Go Astray And Never Reach The Delectable Mountains Unless He Early Finds Those Shepherd Guides Of Whom Bunyan Tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, And Sincere.

The Philosophies Of One Age Have Become The Absurdities Of The Next, And The Foolishness Of Yesterday Has Become The Wisdom Of Tomorrow.

That Man Can Interrogate As Well As Observe Nature Was A Lesson Slowly Learned In His Evolution.

Breathes There A Man With Soul So Dead That It Does Not Glow At The Thought Of What The Men Of His Blood Have Done And Suffered To Make His Country What It Is? There Is Room, Plenty Of Room, For Proper Pride Of Land And Birth. What I Inveigh Against Is A Cursed Spirit Of Intolerance, Conceived In Distrust And Bred In Ignorance, That Makes The Mental Attitude Perennially Antagonistic, Even Bitterly Antagonistic, To Everything Foreign, That Subordinates Everywhere The Race To The Nation, Forgetting The Higher Claims Of Human Brotherhood.

A Library Represents The Mind Of Its Collector, His Fancies And Foibles, His Strength And Weakness, His Prejudices And Preferences. Particularly Is This The Case If, To The Character Of A Collector, He Adds - Or Tries To Add - The Qualities Of A Student Who Wishes To Know The Books And The Lives Of The Men Who Wrote Them. The Friendships Of His Life, The Phases Of His Growth, The Vagaries Of His Mind, All Are Represented.