MAGIC IN BOOKS
“ We have all outgrown the belief in magic. At least we believe that we have outgrown it. But you cannot quite do away with magic as long as you are a reader of books. To begin with, if a man writes a book, he is never quite dead as long as anybody reads it, and so in books dead men are achieving a perpetual resurrection. And then nothing is quite lost if you put it in a book,” writes Dr Lynn Harold Hough, in his book, “Adventures in the Minds of Men.” “ Though tucked away in the libraries in the world, at any time someone is likely to find it, and then it will spread abroad and become the possession of men everywhere. The past has not really departed as long as its tale remains in some of the books of the world, for somebody is likely to read the books and then our ancestors become our contemporaries.”
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Waipa Post, Volume 44, Issue 3183, 28 May 1932, Page 7
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