Emerson said with typical simplicity: Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hidden and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age.… True—but what about the books written by fools, literary technicians or fame-hungry authors who have nothing to say—and say it? Of them, King Solomon said in his Ecclesiastes that their books will be the ultimate malediction: “Of the making of books there will be no end.…” Why should this be a curse? Solomon was wise—the wisest of all kings. He knew. He knew that there would be a time when more books would be published than written. If the school is a temple, then the library is its sanctuary.
What do You think about From The Kingdom Of Memory?
