BOOKS ARE THE CARRIERS of civilization. ...
... Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
Barbara Tuchman, Papyrus to Paperbacks: The World That Books Made, Washington Post, December 30, 1979.
BOOKS ARE THE CARRIERS of civilization. ...
... Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change, windows on the world, and (as a poet has said) "lighthouses erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
Barbara Tuchman, Papyrus to Paperbacks: The World That Books Made, Washington Post, December 30, 1979.