LIBRARIES.
A library may be considered from two very different points of view: as a workshop, or as a Museum.
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The former commends itself to the practical turn of mind characteristic of the present day; common sense urges that mechanical ingenuity, which has done so much in other directions, should be employed in making the acquisition of knowledge less cumbrous and less tedious; that as we travel by steam, so we should also read...
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