ewan forster & christopher Heighes
‘Books, immense as their value really is, are over-rated
when it is supposed that
they may be made to teach us everything. Many of the items which constitute
the
mass of human knowledge have not yet found their way into books, but remain
still
loose and ungathered among the habits and daily transactions of society.”
from The Pursuit of Knowledge
under Difficulties
The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 1831