A WORD FOR FREE LIBRARIES.
An English contemporary says:—Professor linxley went to the root of tho matter when lie defended free libraries on t.lie ground that f hoy help to catch your man of ability, and gave him a chance to come to the top. lie said:—Wo were a thoroughly mixed people in this country, and lie did not believe that if 100 men worn picked out. of the highest aristocracy in the land, and 100 out. of tho lowest class, there would bo any difference of capacity among them. Men of mark and capacity were rare animals everywhere. Perhaps one in ten thousand of tho people would be a large estimate of the men of real grip and intellect, though to his mind the greatest of all practical social problems was how to catch your man of ability and turn him to account, and it all the cost of tin; Education Act, and all the money spent on free libraries, enabled them to catch two of such men a year, and enable them to do Die work in the world which they were intended for, the thing would be dirt cheap.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2376, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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192A WORD FOR FREE LIBRARIES. Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2376, 1 October 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)
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