home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
Understanding McLuhan
/
Understanding McLuhan (1996)(Voyager)[Mac-PC].iso
/
pc
/
mcluhan.dxr
/
09061_Field_TCGG T826.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1996-04-10
|
1KB
|
16 lines
for our happiness, people may be disgusted with the
sciences, and that a fatal despair may cause them to fall
back into barbarism. To which result that horrible mass of
books which keeps on growing might contribute very
much. For in the end the disorder will become nearly
insurmountable; the indefinite multitude of authors will
shortly expose them all to the danger of general oblivion;
the hope of glory animating many people at work in
studies will suddenly cease; it will be perhaps as
disgraceful to be an author as it was formerly honorable.
At best, one may amuse himself with little books of the
hour which will run their course in a few years and will
serve to divert a reader from boredom for a few moments,
but which will have been written without any design to
promote our knowledge or to deserve the appreciation of
posterity. I shall be told that since so many people write it