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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 3., The Evolution of the Medford public Library. (search)
nly test of success is usefulness. It has been said: Agassiz always insisted that something resembling miracles might be wrought in reforming the people by informing them. It is customary to measure the importance of a library by the amount of its circulation, as if the more books a man reads the wiser he necessarily becomes. But quality, not quantity of reading is what makes the good citizen, and here it is impossible to tabulate statistics, so dear to the average mind. The Right Hon. John Morley, at the dedication of a public library in Scotland, says: Show me a man or woman whose reading has made him or her tolerant, patient, candid, a truth-seeker and a truth-lover, then I will show you a well-read man. I have always thought that an admirable definition of the purposes of libraries and of books by an admirable man of letters years ago, when he said their object was to bring more sunshine into the lives of our fellow-countrymen, more good-will, more good-humor, and more of