The book Letters to the Joneses was written by author J G Josiah Gilbert Holland Here you can read free online of Letters to the Joneses book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Letters to the Joneses a good or bad book?
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The theorists of all ages have filled the world with words, and the pulpit and the library and the school are thronged with words that represent more or less of the material and the spiritual worlds, but knowledge does not come from the pulpit, or the library, or the school. To know a thing is to live a thing — is to come into personal con- tact and acquaintance with a thing through the use of powers adapted to win acquaintance by contact. I have seen grave doctors and literary men and clergy- ...To Noel Jones. 181 men and shrewd business men listen for hours to the talk of a man who knew nothing but the habits of a horse, and the means of making that animal the kind and healthy servant of man ; and although he could not construct a sentence of English elegantly, they listened as intently as if he were reciting the choicest poem in the language with the imction of a Kemble, forgetful alike of his provincial pronuncia- tion and his incorrect English. These men were learn- ers. They had found a man who knew something.
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