the individuality of the thinker. Men blindly accept the doctrines as expounded by Cicero, Locke, and Bacon, and lose sight of the fact that these very men whom they delight in quoting were at one time young men pouring over the productions of earlier ages. They were men, with the faults and weaknesses of men, and yet they are placed by many upon pedestals and worshiped almost as gods. Under such circumstances the productions of these men are injurious instead of beneficial.
(4) Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class who value books, as such; not as related to nature and the human constitution, but as making a sort of Third Estate with the world and the soul. Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.
Instead of an active soul, an original thinker, we have the eater of
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