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...Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...every thinker, still very literally lives ; can be called-up again into life. No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought,...

...mankind. " In books," says Carlyle, "lies the soul of the whole past time: the articulate, audible voice of the past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream." Books have proved themselves to be monuments more enduring than brass or marble. The Parthenon is in...

...THE VOICE OF THE PAST. In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high domed, many engined, — they are precious, great : but what do they become ? Agamemnon, the many...

...dream. Mighty fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high-domed, many engined, — they are precious, great : but what do they become ? Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, aud their Greece ; all is gone now to some ruined fragments, dumb mournful wrecks and blocks : but...

...Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...fleets and armies, harbours and arsenals, vast cities, high -domed, many-engined, — they are precious, great: but what do they become? Agamemnon, the many...

...Runes, the latest form ! In Books lies the soul of the whole Past Time ; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance...manyengined, — they are precious, great : but what do they hecome ? Agamemnon, the many Agamemnons, Pericleses, and their Greece; all is gone now to some ruined...