ittle more deliberation in ts,

        all mes and observers, for

        certainly ture ainy are iing to all alike.    In

        accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a

        family or a state, or acquiring fame even, al; but in

        dealing rutal, and need fear no ge nor

        act.    t Egyptian or hindoo philosopher raised a er

        of tatue of ty; and still trembling

        robe remains raised, and I gaze upon as fresh a glory as he did,

        si    is

        no tled on t robe; no time

        divinity    time which we

        really improve, or ,

        nor future.

        My residence    only to t, but to

        serious reading, ty; and the

        range of ting library, I han ever e

        e round the world,

        ten on bark, and are now merely

        copied from time to time on to linen paper.    Says t Mr

        Udd, "Beied, to run the

        spiritual o be

        intoxicated by a single glass of wine; I his

        pleasure rines."    I

        kept able though I looked

        at    labor

        first, for I o finiso    the same

        time, made more study impossible.    Yet I sustained myself by the

        prospect of sucure.    I read one or two shallow books

        of travel in tervals of my ill t employment made me

        as    I lived.

        tudent may read

        danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies t he in

        some measure emulate te m o

        ted in ter of

        our motongue, o degee

        times; and    laboriously seek the meaning of each word and

        line, jecturing a larger ses out of

        y we he modern cheap and

        fertile press, s translations, tle t

        us o ters of antiquity.    they seem as

        solitary, and tter in wed as rare and

        curious, as ever.    It is hful days and

        costly    language,

        rivialness of treet, to be

        perpetual suggestions and provocations.    It is not in vain t the

        farmer remembers as tin words which he has heard.

        Men sometimes speak as if tudy of t length

        make ical studies; but turous

        student udy classics, in hey may be

        ten and    t are the classics

        but t recorded ts of man?    the only oracles

        o t modern

        inquiry in t as well

        omit to study Nature because so read    is, to

        read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and o

        ask toms of the

        day esteem.    It requires a training suces under,

        teady iion almost of to t.    Books

        must be read as deliberately and reservedly as tten.

        It is not enougo be able to speak t

        nation by erval

        betten language, the language heard and

        transitory, a sound, a

        tongue, a dialect merely, almost brutis

        unsciously, like tes, of our mothe

        maturity and experience of t; if t is our motohis

        is our fatongue, a reserved a expression, too

        signifit to be    be bain in

        order to speak.    the Greek and

        Latin tongues iled by t

        of birto read tten in those languages; for

        t ten in t Greek or Latin w

        in t language of literature.    t learhe

        nobler dialects of Greed Rome, but terials on which

        tten e paper to tead

        a cemporary literature.    But wions of

        Europe inct tten languages of their

        o for teratures, then

        first learning revived, and sco dis from

        t remotereasures of antiquity.     the Roman and

        Gre multitude could he lapse of ages a few

        scill reading it.

        ors occasional bursts of

        eloque ten words are only as far behind or

        above ting spoken language as t s stars

        is bears, and they who    may

        read tronomers forever ent on and observe them.

        t exions like our daily colloquies and vaporous

        breat is called eloquen to

        be rori tudy.    tor yields to tion of a

        tra occasion, and speaks to to those who

        ter, whose more equable life is his

        occasion, and ed by t and the crowd

        o telled h of

        mankind, to all in any age wand him.

        No    Alexander carried th him on his

        expeditions in a precious casket.    A ten    of

        relics.    It is somet once more intimate h us and more

        universal t.    It is t

        to life itself.    It may be translated into every language, and not

        only be read but actually breat be

        represented on vas or in marble only, but be carved out of the

        breatself.    t mans t

        bees a modern mans speeced

        to ts of Gre literature, as to her marbles, only a

        maturer golden and autumnal tint, for their own

        serene aial atmospo all lands to protect them

        against time.    Books are treasured h of

        t inance of geions and nations.

        Books, t and t, stand naturally and rightfully on

        ttage.    to

        plead, but ain the reader his on

        sense    refuse tural and

        irresistible aristocra every society, and, more than kings or

        emperors, exert an influenankind.    erate and

        perrader erprise and industry his

        coveted leisure and independence, and is admitted to the circles of

        urns iably at last to till

        yet inaccessible circles of intelled genius, and is

        sensible only of tion of ure and ty and

        insufficy of all her proves his good sense

        by takes to secure for

        intellectual culture w    is

        t he founder of a family.

        t learo read t classi the

        language in

        knoory of t is remarkable

        t no transcript of to any modern

        tongue, unless our civilization itself may be regarded as such a

        transcript.     been printed in English, nor

        AEschylus, nor Virgil even -- works as refined, as solidly done, and

        as beautiful almost as tself; for later ers, say

        he

        elaborate beauty and finiserary

        labors of ts.    talk of fetting them who never

        khe

        learning and to attend to and

        appreciate t age will be richose relics

        han classic

        but even less knoures of tions, sill

        furted, wis sh Vedas

        and Zeas and Bibles, es and Shakespeares,

        and all turies to e sed

        trophe world.    By such a pile we may

        o scale    last.

        t poets    been read by

        mankind, for only great poets    read they have only been

        read as titude read tars, at most astrologically, not

        astronomically.    Most men o read to serve a paltry

        venience, as to cipo keep

        ats and not be ced in trade; but of reading as a noble

        intellectual exercise ttle or not this only is

        reading, in a    t which lulls us as a luxury and

        suffers ties to sleep t w we o

        stand on tip-toe to read ae our most alert and wakeful hours

        to.

        I t ters we s

        t is in literature, and not be forever repeating our a-b-abs, and

        ting on

        t and foremost form all our lives.    Most meisfied

        if ted by the

        of their lives

        vegetate and dissipate ties in w is called easy

        reading.    ting

        Library entitled "Little Reading," o a

        to name o.    those who,

        like orants and ostric all sorts of this, even

        after t dinner of meats aables, for they suffer

        noto be ed.    If oto provide this

        proveo read it.    the nine

        tale about Zebulon and Sophey loved as

        none rue

        love run smoot any rate,    did run and stumble, a

        up again and go on! u up on to a

        steeple, wter never he belfry; and

        t    rings

        to e together and hear, O dear! how he

        did get do, I t tter

        metamorpo man

        o put ellations,

        aill ty, and not e

        do all to bot men    time

        t rings t stir ting-house

        burn do;tip-toe-he Middle

        Ages, by ted autittle-tol-tan, to appear in

        monts; a great rus all e toget;    All this

        t and primitive curiosity, and

        ions eve need no

        s as some little four-year-old benc

        gilt-covered edition of derella --    any improvement, t

        I    see, in tion, or at, or emphasis, or any more

        skill irag or iing t is dulness

        of sigagnation of tal circulations, and a general

        deliquium and slougellectual faculties.    this

        sort of gingerbread is baked daily and more sedulously than pure

        every oven, and finds a surer

        market.

        t books are not read even by those who are called good

        readers.     does our cord culture amount to?    this

        toions, no taste for t or for very

        good books even in Engliserature, whose words all    read and

        spell.    Even ted men

        tle or no acquaintance he

        Englishe

        a classid Bibles, wo all who will

        kno efforts anywo bee

        acquainted hem.    I know a woodchopper, of middle age, who

        takes a Frenc for news as ,

        but to "keep ice," h; and

        his

        o his English.

        t as muco

        do, and take an Englishe purpose.    One who has

        just e from reading per English books will

        find    it?    Or suppose he

        es from reading a Greek or Latin classi the inal, whose

        praises are familiar even to terate; he will find

        nobody at all to speak to, but must keep silence about it.    Indeed,

        the professor in our colleges, who, if he has

        mastered ties of tionally

        mastered ties of t and poetry of a Greek poet, and

        o impart to t and heroic reader; and as

        for tures, or Bibles of mankind, wown

        tell me even titles?    Most men do not kno any nation

        but ture.    A man, any man, will go

        siderably out of o pick up a silver dollar; but here are

        golden iquity tered, and

        whe wise of every succeeding age have assured us of; --

        a o read only as far as Easy Reading, the primers

        and class-books, and tle Reading," and

        story-books, which are for boys and beginners; and our reading, our

        versation and thy only

        of pygmies and manikins.

        I aspire to be acquainted his our cord

        soil has produced, whose names are hardly known here.    Or shall I

        o and never read o were my

        townsman and I never saw    neighbor and I never heard

        teo t ually

        is it?    ain al in him, lie

        on t s I never read them.    e are underbred and

        loerate; and in t I fess I do not

        make any very broad distin beterateness of my

        to all aeness of him who

        o read only s.

        e siquity, but partly by

        first kno-men, and

        soar but little ellectual flighe ns

        of the daily paper.

        It is not all books t are as dull as there

        are probably o our ditioly, which, if we

        could really and, ary the

        m or to our lives, and possibly put a ne on

        ted a new era in

        s for us,

        perche

        at present unutterable ttered.    these

        same questions t disturb and puzzle and found us heir

        turn occurred to all t oed; and

        eaco y, by his words and

        y.    the

        solitary skirts of cord, who has

        h and peculiar religious experience, and is

        driven as o t gravity and exclusiveness by

        is not true; but Zoroaster, thousands of

        years ago, travelled t

        to be universal, and treated his neighbors

        accly, and is even said to ed aablished

        hen, and

        th Jesus

        C    "our c; go by the board.

        e boast t o teentury and are making

        t rapid strides of any nation.    But sider tle this

        village does for its oure.    I do not ter my

        too be flattered by t    advance

        eito be provoked -- goaded like oxen, as we

        are, into a trot.    e ively det system of on

        sly; but excepting tarved

        Lyceum in ter, and latterly the puny beginning of a library

        suggested by tate, no school for ourselves.    e spend more on

        almost any article of bodily aliment or ailment tal

        aliment.    It is time t

        leave off our education    is

        time t villages ies, and tants

        ties, hey are, indeed, so

        o pursue liberal studies t of their lives.

        So one Paris or one Oxford forever?

        ot students be boarded    a liberal education under

        t o lecture to

        us?    Alas! tle and tending tore, we

        are kept from scoo long, and our education is sadly ed.

        In try, ts take the place

        of t sron of the fine

        arts.    It is ric s only ty and

        refi.    It    spend money enoughings as farmers and

        traders value, but it is t Utopian to propose spending money

        for telligent men knoo be of far more h.

        toeen town-house,

        tune or politics, but probably it    spend so mu

        living , true meat to put into t shell, in a hundred

        years.    ty-five dollars annually subscribed

        for a Lyceum in ter is better spent ther equal sum

        raised iury, why

        s enjoy tages ury

        offers?     provincial?    If we

        on and take the

        best ne once? -- not be sug the pap of

        "ral family" papers, or bro;Olive Branc; here in New

        England.    Let ts of all ties e to us,

        and    to

        o select our reading?    As the

        nobleman of cultivated taste surrounds ever

        duces to ure -- genius -- learning --    -- books --

        paintings -- statuary -- music -- pruments, and the

        like; so let t stop s at a pedagogue, a

        parson, a sexton, a parismen, because our

        Pilgrim forefat ter on a bleak rock

        o act collectively is acc to t of our

        institutions; and I am fident t, as our circumstances are more

        flouriser the noblemans.    New England

        e and teach her, and

        board t be provincial at all.    t is

        t.    Instead of nobleme us have noble

        villages of men.    If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the

        river, go round a little t least over the

        darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.
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