Books and Reading

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Excerpt from Books and Reading: A Lecture Connected with these notions respecting books, there is in many minds a feeling of modesty and self-distrust. They have no head for them, many say The world of learning is so wide, the multitude of books so great, what is the use of their entering a wilderness in which they would surely be lost? Even if they had abundance of time, they have no talent and if they had the talent, where is the use of trying to turn to any serious account the little fragments of time which are all that their daily labor leaves them? There is, as I have said, a notion that book knowledge is something different from other kinds of knowledge, requiring peculiar talents for mastering it, and that the possession of a very fair amount of ability for ordinary affairs does not necessarily imply success in application to study. I shall have occasion to examine this Opinion presently. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.