Library IdealsOpen Court Publishing Company, 1918 - Počet stran: 78 WISCONSIN, a true cradle of freedom and successful government, has fostered several librarians who were true humanists. Dr. Peckham was one. Dr. Thwaites was another. Henry E. Legler was unlike either of these, but greater than either in his continued and unabated activity for the good of the people. Once, on being complimented for his splendid work in natural history and his persistence in the pursuit of scientific facts, Dr. Peckham remarked: "Oh, yes, but the facts have no value in themselves. They merely build up the groundwork of the ideas, and help you climb to the point of view where the deeper aspects of the subject spread out before you like a landscape beneath a mountain-top." Mr. Legler's activity in behalf of libraries will support the same explanation. He seemed always immersed in detail, always planning some movement and carrying it into effect by his peculiar, dynamic persistence. But he who observed the man kindly and closely cannot have failed to have noticed that there was a distinct Beyond illumining and overshadowing it all. There was a dream to come true, a vision to be unfolded. The dream and vision were in the man's speech and eye. He lived under a prophecy. |
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... live spark of inspiration. The dream was in his eye, inspiration was in his speech and manner. Library work was the means in his power of making his fellow-men ever more free and happy, ever more master of themselves, ever more capable ...
... live spark of inspiration. The dream was in his eye, inspiration was in his speech and manner. Library work was the means in his power of making his fellow-men ever more free and happy, ever more master of themselves, ever more capable ...
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... live spark of inspiration . The dream was in his eye , inspiration was in his speech and manner . Library work was the means in his power of making his fellow - men ever more free and happy , ever more master of themselves , ever more ...
... live spark of inspiration . The dream was in his eye , inspiration was in his speech and manner . Library work was the means in his power of making his fellow - men ever more free and happy , ever more master of themselves , ever more ...
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... lives of usefulness and contentment . Much has been done to give the life in the rural regions attract- iveness and comfort ; much more remains to be done , and particularly in supplying educational advantages , if the young men and ...
... lives of usefulness and contentment . Much has been done to give the life in the rural regions attract- iveness and comfort ; much more remains to be done , and particularly in supplying educational advantages , if the young men and ...
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... live here always , I have asked many questions and learned a great deal in these last years , and certainly enough to cure me of my old fancies . But you would not have me die and not see all that is to be seen , and do all that a man ...
... live here always , I have asked many questions and learned a great deal in these last years , and certainly enough to cure me of my old fancies . But you would not have me die and not see all that is to be seen , and do all that a man ...
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... live my life ? I would rather die out of hand , ' he cried , ' than linger on as I am doing . ' 66 " Thousands of people , ' said the young man , ' live and die like you , and are none the less happy . ' " Ah ! ' said Will , ' if there ...
... live my life ? I would rather die out of hand , ' he cried , ' than linger on as I am doing . ' 66 " Thousands of people , ' said the young man , ' live and die like you , and are none the less happy . ' " Ah ! ' said Will , ' if there ...
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