The Celebration of Intellect
Celebration of Intellect (delivered at Harvard in 1870)
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Chapter VIII. Prospects
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Chapter VIII Books
O DAY of days when we can read! The reader and the book, – either without the other is naught. THAT book is good Which puts me in a working mood. Unless to Thought be added Will Apollo is an imbecile. BOOKS IT is easy to accuse books, and bad ones are easily found ;…
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