Valuable Books
Viewed from the standpoint of literature early books in this collection are of great intrinsic value, embodying as they do the words and thoughts of scholars, commentators, preachers, teachers; men who were brilliant in the world of letters in their day and who helped mould the progress of the race. Some of these Hterary treasure? have been the property of kings;
others have been dedicated to queens rulers, or dictated by popes, begged by emperors, banned by legisiators, pored over by ecclesiastics in forgotten monasteries. Some have been cited as precursors of revolutions in thought and in State policies, and some set out in picturesque phrases, the wonders discovered by explorers haring unknown worlds, at a time when dragons and unpropitiated spiteful gods lay In wait for the unwary traveller. But they are precious today, not solely because of the messages they carry, nor even for their association with historic figures, but because they represent phases of an art that has speeded up the progress of the world—the art of making visible the products of mental processes of meditation or fancy, and permitting them to be transmitted to others.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 17
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191Valuable Books Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1070, 6 September 1930, Page 17
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