Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — James Russell Lowell on Reading. [ARTICLE]

James Russell Lowell on Reading.

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That It is the key that admits us to the whole world of thought and fancy and imagination; to the company of sage and saint, of the wisest and the wittiest at their wisest and wittiest moment? That it enables us to see with the keenest eyes, hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time? —James Russell Lowell.