. The Twin City Chautauqua journal. GEO. VOL. 2, JUNE 1900. NO. 3. USE AND ABUSE OF READING By Thos. Keadinj?, that makes the past present, thedistiiict near and all experience ours, is atonce the grandest source of enlightenmentand one of the greatest hindrances to de-velopment. Reading is not an exception tothe rule that a great good may be so per-verted as to become a great evil. Keadirg, says Bacon, n^aketh a fullman. Through the medium of books, wemay become heirs of the great who havelabored and thought and suffered in all thepast. Without leaving our own fireside, wemay see ev
. The Twin City Chautauqua journal. GEO. VOL. 2, JUNE 1900. NO. 3. USE AND ABUSE OF READING By Thos. Keadinj?, that makes the past present, thedistiiict near and all experience ours, is atonce the grandest source of enlightenmentand one of the greatest hindrances to de-velopment. Reading is not an exception tothe rule that a great good may be so per-verted as to become a great evil. Keadirg, says Bacon, n^aketh a fullman. Through the medium of books, wemay become heirs of the great who havelabored and thought and suffered in all thepast. Without leaving our own fireside, wemay see every country and every object ofinterest on the globe, and in turn listen tothe wisest ai:d the wittiest of all ages. Butas the highest end of living is not the pos-ses-sion of much goods and lands, so the full-ness that comes of much reading is not themost desirable endowment. The true end of intellectual living is, thefullest development of all the mental pow-ers with a view to their greatest usefulnessto the individual and to society. In the at
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