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Listening v. Reading “I am one of those,” said Dr. Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool, in a recent speech, “who think that listening-in will never oust the habit of reading, and that only in the harmonious blending of the spoken and written word is the power of the publicist at its highest. In the first place the spoken word is fleeting and soon forgotten, while the printed word remains and tends to anchor itself in the mind. In the second place, the printed word makes irresistible appeal to the reflective mind of the studious who love to browse in peace and quiet. For such as these reading stands in the place of the company. All the many moderns know about the past c«r want to know about it is that it isn’t the present. And yet the past holds patent lessons for us all. By reading a man makes himself contemporary with the sages of antiquity.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20498, 14 May 1938, Page 6
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159TOPICS OF THE DAY Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20498, 14 May 1938, Page 6
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