The book Lovers Enchiridion Thoughts On the Solace And Companionship of Books
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Essentially 80. How much more he who sings, who says, or in any way brings home to our heart the noble doings, feelings, darings and endurances of a brother man ! He has verily touched our hearts as with a live coal from the altar. Perhaps there is no worship more authentic. . . . On aU sides, are we not driven to the conclusion that, of the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most Thomas Carlyle, 135 momentous, wonderful and worthy are tlie things we call Books ! Those poor ...bits of rag-paper with black ink on them ;— from the Daily Newspaper to the sacred Hebrew Book, what have they not done, what are they not doing !— For indeed, whatever be the outward form of the thing (bits of paper, as we say, and black ink), is it not verily, at bottom, the highest act of man's faculty that produces a Book ? It is the Tliouglit of man; the true thaumaturgic virtue; by which man works all things whatsoever. All that he does, and brings to pass, is the vesture of a Thought.
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