Excerpt from A Talk About Books: Addressed Originally to the Students of the Central High School, Buffalo So it is not, in reality, of Books that I wish to speak, but of the contents of Books. It may be well for us to think of Books in that way, as vessels - vehicles - carriers - because it leads us, I am sure, to more clearly classified ideas of them. It puts them all into one category, to begin with, as carriers in the commerce of mind with mind; which instantly suggests that there are divisions of kind in that commerce, ...
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Excerpt from A Talk About Books: Addressed Originally to the Students of the Central High School, Buffalo So it is not, in reality, of Books that I wish to speak, but of the contents of Books. It may be well for us to think of Books in that way, as vessels - vehicles - carriers - because it leads us, I am sure, to more clearly classified ideas of them. It puts them all into one category, to begin with, as carriers in the commerce of mind with mind; which instantly suggests that there are divisions of kind in that commerce, very much as there are divisions of kind in the mercantile traffic of the world, and we proceed naturally to some proper assort ing of the mind-matter which Books are carriers for. The division we are likely to recognize first is one that separates all which we commonly describe to ourselvesa; canon A Talk About Books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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12mo. 36 pp. Beige and green cloth-covered boards. Good with rubbings on front boards, toning and marginal staining. Illustrated capitals. Presumed First edition. From the collection of the late Frederick Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.
