Mr Lloyd 'ieorge's complaint of the 6peed of modern life, and in particular of hurried and discursive reading, has been made at frequent intervals by middle-aged gentlemen. Three hundred years "before Matthew Arnold, Sir John Davies lamented that the multitudinous interests and the rapid pace of modern life left men "unacquainted still with their own souls." And, three hundred years before Sir John Davies, encyclopaedic learning led St. Thomas Aquinas to a smaller estimate than Mr George's of the books necessary for scholarship. Asked what was the best way to become learned, he answered. •'Read one book."
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17814, 13 July 1923, Page 11
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