Author: Santayana, George
Publisher: New York: Scribner's 1944.
Description: 262p green cloth, gilt lettering to front, a nice copy, frontispiece, first edition (?) with wartime standards conformity statement. Inserted a newspaper clipping stating: "Reporters in Rome have discovered that George Santayana, the philosopher, has a unique reading habit of tearing pages out of his books, taking them to the park and throwing them away when he has read them. To some this is pure sacrilege. "A book," they say, "is man's best companion. It is a casket of wisdom or entertainment and should be prized more than an emerald" - - To worship books purely because they are books is like worshiping oysters because some contain pearls. A few books are worth treasuring. But they are very few. Most of those that grace the average bookshelf are for ornamental purposes. They are unread or partially read. They are doing no-one any good. Better it would be that their pages were torn out and read. Better still that the books be read and passed on intact to a public library."
Order No: PIP 40491
Language: English
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