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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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... seemed like a great conspiracy of things animate and inanimate , they all went down- ward , fleetly and gaily downward , posting downward to the unknown world , and only he , it seemed , remained behind , like a stock upon the wayside ...
... seemed like a great conspiracy of things animate and inanimate , they all went down- ward , fleetly and gaily downward , posting downward to the unknown world , and only he , it seemed , remained behind , like a stock upon the wayside ...
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... seemed to expand and emit a sharper brilliancy ; and as he kept turning his eyes higher and higher , they seemed to increase in multitude under his gaze . " Will went to and fro minding his wayside inn , until the snow began to thicken ...
... seemed to expand and emit a sharper brilliancy ; and as he kept turning his eyes higher and higher , they seemed to increase in multitude under his gaze . " Will went to and fro minding his wayside inn , until the snow began to thicken ...
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... seemed the fruition of his dream , he lived to see proph- ecy merge in realization . Were this lover of mankind still living , he would know that his concept , though he saw it carried into being , had not permanence in the form he gave ...
... seemed the fruition of his dream , he lived to see proph- ecy merge in realization . Were this lover of mankind still living , he would know that his concept , though he saw it carried into being , had not permanence in the form he gave ...
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... seemed too unimportant for consideration by library workers . Librarians have sought to identify their work with them all , to achieve contact with every individual , with groups of indi- viduals and with communities as a whole . If ...
... seemed too unimportant for consideration by library workers . Librarians have sought to identify their work with them all , to achieve contact with every individual , with groups of indi- viduals and with communities as a whole . If ...
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