 Books are the best of things, well used, abused among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end? Which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction, clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. So you can't really learn anything from the Bible, or from Plato, or from Aristotle, or from Dante, or from Melville, or from history. You just get inspired by it. What pure nonsense. How dangerous. No wonder the modern world feels that it's okay not to give students their great inheritance, their great treasure, the western set of books and ideas that have shaped mankind.