Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
INTERFERENCES WITH THE READING HABIT CIVILISATION I--Dust II--Dust III--Dust to Dust IV--Ashes V--The Literary Rush VI--Parenthesis--To the Gentle Reader VII--More Parenthesis--But More to the Point VIII--More Literary Rush IX--The Bugbear of Being Well Informed--A Practical S...
"Trains," he said--"a globe full of trains. They are on a dozen sides of it. They are clinging to the crusts of it--mountains--rivers--prairies--some in the light and some in th...
7. Chapter 7I have a way every two or three days or so, of an afternoon, of going down to our library, sliding into the little gate by the shelves, and taking a long empty walk there. I hav...
9. Chapter 9found myself before this book, praying to it, and before every struggling desiring-book of every man, of other men, where it has prayed before, and I dared to look my title in t...
6. Chapter 6And I looked, and behold in the shadow of the earth, which came and went, I saw Human Lives being tossed about. On the solemn rhythmic music, back and forth, I saw them lifted a...
8. Chapter 8It is good to rise early in the morning, when the world is still respectable and nobody has used it yet, and sit and look at it, try to realise it. One sees things very differen...
1. Chapter 1INTERFERENCES WITH THE READING HABIT CIVILISATION I--Dust II--Dust III--Dust to Dust IV--Ashes V--The Literary Rush VI--Parenthesis--To the Gentle Reader VII--More Parenthesis--...
3. Chapter 3DETAILS. THE CONFESSIONS OF AN UNSCIENTIFIC MIND I--UNSCIENTIFIC I--On Being Intelligent in a Library II--How It Feels III--How a Specialist Can Be an Educated Man IV--On Readin...
4. Chapter 42. Chapter 2