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Show Importnce or Reading. No matter how obscure the position in life of an individual, if he can read he may, at will, put himself in the best society soc-iety the world has ever seen. He may converse w th the greatest heroes of the past; with all the writers in prose and poetry. He may learn how to live, how to avoid the errors of his predecessors and to secure blessings; present and future, fu-ture, to himself. He may reside m a desert lar away Irom the habitations of man; in solitude, where no human eye looks upon him with affection or interest wheie no human voice cheers him with the animating tones; if he has books to read, he can never be alone. He may choose his company, and thn subject of conversation, and thus become contented and happy, ntelligent, wise and good. He thus elevates his rank in the world and become independent, in the best sense, of the first in importance, of the department ol school education |