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Updated: July 9, 2025
It is when he proceeds to estimate these great men, not as writers but as social forces, not as stylists but as apostles, that M. Taine discloses the characteristic weaknesses of the bookman in dealing with the facts of concrete sociology. He shows none of this weakness in what he says of the remote past.
The bookman will of course upon occasion trifle with various kinds of reading, and there is one member of the brotherhood who has a devouring thirst for detective stories, and has always been very grateful to the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
An old quatrain gives us a list of some of the parts he played when in the towns of his enemies "He is a carpenter, he is a turner. My nursling is a bookman. He is selling wine and hides Where he sees a gathering."
He thereupon haggled with the bookman, bought the book and beneath his first inscription wrote, "With the renewed regards of H. Heine." He then sent the volume for the second time to his friend. 'T is possible that Tyndall had heard of this. In Eighteen Hundred Fifty, when Tyndall was thirty years of age, he visited London, and of course went to the British Institution.
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