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As he walked toward Doc Weaver's house he decided what he would do: he would go to his room and tear his sample copy of Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art to scraps and throw them out upon the wind; he would write to Jarby & Goss and resign his commission; he would have Irontail hitched to his buggy and leave Kilo at once and forever, and from some other town he would write to G. P. Hicks & Co., and solicit the agency for Hicks' Facts for the Million, a book he had heretofore hated and despised.
So, upon the first symptoms of placability, I answered cordially, "Halicarnassus, it has been the ambition of my life to write a book of travels. But to write a book of travels, one must first have travelled." "Not at all," he responded. "With an atlas and an encyclopedia one can travel around the world in his arm-chair." "But one cannot have personal adventures," I said.
Practically, none of the cyclopaedia previously accessible in our language has now much value. Such works as "Rees's," the "Edinburgh," the "London," and the "Penny" Cyclopaedias, the "Encyclopaedia Metropolitana," and the excellent, though rather brief, "Encyclopedia Americana" of Dr.
As for the theatre, "the large and highly ornamented theatre" of which I read, only a little while ago, in an encyclopedia, we found it, by the light of our candles, a series of gloomy hollows, of the general complexion of coal-bins and potato-cellars.
The first great empires clustered around the places where Adam and Noah lived. No other civilization recorded in any quarter reaches farther back. We quote from the New International Encyclopedia: "The Sumerian language is probably the oldest known language in the world.
"Not if written in the usual style, suggesting a conscientious rehash of the encyclopedia. But suppose it were done differently, and with a caption like this, 'Why Does an Angle-Worm Wriggle? Set that in irregular type that weaved and squirmed across the column, and Jones-in-the-street-car would at least look at it." "Good Heavens! I should think so," assented Marrineal.
"I believe this is gold," he said. "It certainly looks like it," said Sutter in surprise. Then Marshall told how he had found it in the mill stream, and that he believed there were tons of it. Sutter was a very great man in the countryside, and he had things which no one else dreamed of having. Among these was an Encyclopedia. So he looked up the article on gold and read it carefully.
It is the basis of this theory that Roman Catholic writers on indulgences declare them to be "extra-sacramental," i. e., outside the Sacrament of Penance. So, e.g., Kent, in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Art. Indulgence. See Theses 56-58. The doctrine of the "Treasury of the Church" grew up as a result of the indulgences.
How indeed, even in the resources of omnipotence, could an answer to the earth-problems have been framed, which, while coming down to the plane of the age of Moses, should have kept level with the rise of human knowledge through the climbing centuries? No, the Bible was not prepared as an Encyclopedia of Knowledge for the successive generations of men.
I accordingly searched for the requisite practical instruction in the pages of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and in other books that professed to give the necessary technical information on the subject. I found, however, that the information given in books at least in the books to which I had access was meagre and unsatisfactory.
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