The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-01-04
The Modern Press.
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modern over ancient ages, THE Pass. What
sorry figure would the establishment Of the fra.
ternal copartnershp of the Sossii Il Co. exhibit
the crack publishing house Of Asgustan Rome
with their few hundreds Of unweldy yolames
of rolled parchment, painfully transcribed with
reed or iron pen, beside our Harper d Brothers
whose mere advertisement catalogues would fur.
nish more pages than Augustan Rome ever pub
lished. Much the same figure which the squad
rons OF Persia and Grerihn barques, which fought
the sea fight of Salamis would exhibit beside the
modern "lronsiees" and Peace makers" who a.
cheye the lrnfdlgars and NayarInos Of our day.
! President JeIers0ns immortal squadron of gun.
boats might have vanquished the whole navy of
all antiquity III single fight. But the glores Of
| the modern pressare yet to be unroIled when the
whole continent j. to be 0ycrspread with it, dense
! and living civilization when the Rocky Mount0ins
shall, like the black margin Of great book, de-
mark, but not divide, ~" great outspread pages
of united empire, AN empire that shall cover with
a bushy population the hills and Wales the green
| river-sldes OF our young continent
! The productions Of the press may first he con
tcmplsted IN the more permanent form Of the L.
/ Jrdry-the settled form of ancient lore. establish
ed science, and enshrued genius. 1t constitutes
/ the entire treasury of the worlds standard intel
lectua wealth The library j., NJ it were the
worlds great memory, containing all II knows; It
is that cell in the worlds phrsnulogy whi,h hulds
its boarded masses Of fixed thought II Is rrflec
| ton which has ceased To- cicfvtstc aud has chrys.
! talizcd into solid cubic forms. Modern meditation
Is still adding like the Slrw accietI"n- of u coral
island IT, umor accumulation. tu the -luprn-
duu> pile. And OF all 1t .tlll ku,v,, tle world
mu.t rg"t uotL.us Man, II cfu.ufr has time
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Will demand, that all '..i - 'r .-.ft. m the vast
LIBRARIES Of Europe 81. D.r. .r. ,r American
type; and every d,pa.,a-us ut pit thought
shall find snong our 'r..,lu u AZ IONS, irs al.
cove and IT. amateurs !! Hs mass of erudton
s." stored Is incnl,agtc s1!, Tie multitude "t III
Sestl.al,r, "lD leo. a. There is knowledge Z.
u"ugh fr ali !rrrvu, ani learners enough f"r
all know edge. r.s'rw NV pity on that little
! ~ emera nuni ~ 'pluk, hat the world tan.
l = tiiVrl {" know 50 ,1p-., because a does not
{rM SO. lrrn 'c,m ,cxed, because tlerr L.
more knowledge IN the world than one brain can
"qmre. HEY ale en,iuu- b, cause when they
have sudTd awholr life tn become learned they
every day pass another and another man, learned
III adelaJ.mcnt Of which they can in one short
life, Know natlng. Let them know, that though
one cannot learn the whole, yet the whole can hr
pnrcelled of to i's owl set, and So the world al
ways knows all II ever knew. The world H. liz
great advances Of mind does nu, know nj what
/ time Il needs some past fact these various sets
u! students. who live to knoV are as the recul.
lectIye faculty IN the mtu'nnr cranirm; Mle
cerehial vibration only Unnecessary little sir in
THIS Hhowins mass, and The past iIct is forthwith
produced
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