Papers and Proceedings of the Sixteenth General Meeting of the American Library Association

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Excerpt from Papers and Proceedings of the Sixteenth General Meeting of the American Library Association: Held at Lake Placid, N. Y., September 17-22, 1894But that simpler state is gone. We who are beyond middle age may say that we have seen it disappear. We have witnessed a miraculous transformation of the earth and of the people who dwell on it. We have seen the passing of Aladdin, who rubbed'his magical electric lamp as he went, calling Afreets from the air to be the common ser vants of man. A change has been wrought within fifty years that is measureless, not only in itself, but in its effects on the human race. The people who whisper in each other's ears across a continent, who know at noon time in Nebraska what happened in the morning at Samarcand, the people to whom a hundred leagues are neighborhood, and a thousand but easy distance, for whom there is little mystery left on the face of the earth. Nor anything hidden from their eyes, these people of our day are not in the likeness of the men and women who ambled horseback or rode in coaches from town to town, and who were content with a weekly mail. The fitting and furniture of mind that would make a safe member of society and a good citizen out of the man of small horizons, who lived the narrower life of a generation or two ago, are perilously scant for these times.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.