One Of The First Duties Of The

There Is No More Potent Antidote To The Corroding Influence Of Mammon Than The Presence In The Community Of A Body Of Men Devoted To Science, Living For Investigation And Caring Nothing For The Lust Of The Eyes And The Pride Of Life.

A Library Represents The Mind Of Its Collector, His Fancies And Foibles, His Strength And Weakness, His Prejudices And Preferences. Particularly Is This The Case If, To The Character Of A Collector, He Adds - Or Tries To Add - The Qualities Of A Student Who Wishes To Know The Books And The Lives Of The Men Who Wrote Them. The Friendships Of His Life, The Phases Of His Growth, The Vagaries Of His Mind, All Are Represented.

Nature, The Great Moloch, Which Exacts A Frightful Tax Of Human Blood, Sparing Neither Young Nor Old; Taking The Child From The Cradle, The Mother From Her Babe, And The Father From The Family.

But Whatever You Do, Take Neither Yourselves Nor Your Fellow-creatures Too Seriously. There Is Tragedy Enough In Our Daily Routine, But There Is Room Too For A Keen Sense Of The Absurdities And Incongruities Of Life, And In The Shifting Panorama No One Sees Better Than The Doctor The Perennial Sameness Of Men’s Ways.

In Seeking Absolute Truth We Aim At The Unattainable And Must Be Content With Broken Portions.