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BOOK AND READING: SECOND LECTURE

Excerpt: "And now I must repeat one thing that I said in the last lecture: namely, that the first use of education was to enable us to consult with the wisest and the greatest men on all points of earnest dificulty. That to use books rightly, was to go to them for help: to appeal to them, when our knowledge and power of though failed; to be led by them into wider sight, purer conceptions than our own, and receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinion. "

• John Ruskin