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Show THIS IS THE LIBRARY by William Alexander Silverman Assistant News Editor, "The Cleveland News" This is the library. If one should ask me which is the greatest wonder of the world, I would choose neither the Pyramids of Egypt, nor the splitting of the atom. Instead, quite proudly, as though I myself had discovered discov-ered this, I would reply, "The public library," for it is all things to all men. To me, this is truly the greatest wondor, for beneath its sheltering roof is the distillate of everything every-thing man has learned since the beginning of his existence. Here, each in its cloister and catalogued in a most amazing amaz-ing way, are all of the questions and answers mankind is capable of asking and finding. This is the only place man has ever found where the hear, and where the mute can speak. This is where the old grow young, and the young gain the wisdom of the ages. |