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Show Heroic Books. Life Is not habitually seen from any common platform so truly mid unexug-gerntedly unexug-gerntedly as In the light of literature. Books; not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but In which each thought Is of unusual daring; such us un Idle man cannot read, nnd a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing Institutions In-stitutions such I call good books. . . . The heroic bfpks, even If printed print-ed In tho character of our mother tongue, will nlwnys bo In n Innguuge dend to degenerate times; and we mut laboriously seek tho meaning of each word and line, conjecturing n larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and vnlor aud generosity gener-osity we hove. Thoreau. |