"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but MINDS alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice, as audible as the streams of sound conveyed day and night by electric waves beyond the range of our physical hearing; and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the far distant voice in time and space, and hear it speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart."
-GILBERT HIGHET
