Books and Culture - Hamilton Wright Mabie

Books and Culture

By Hamilton Wright Mabie

  • Release Date: 1897-01-01
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature

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We cannot get away from the great books of the world, because they preserve and interpret the life of the world; they are inexhaustible, because, being vitally conceived, they need the commentary of that wide experience which we call history to bring out the full meaning of the text; they are our perpetual teachers, because they are the most complete expressions, in that concrete form which we call art, of the thoughts, acts, dispositions, and passions of humanity.

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