“...books are put there [i.e.in a library] for no other
reason than to be serviceable as need arises. This,
however, is impossible unless they be classified and
arranged according to subject matter, or in such other
fashion as will facilitate their being found at specified
places. I affirm, moreover, that without this order and
arrangement a collection of books of whatever size,
were it fifty thousand volumes, would no more merit
the name of a library than an assembly of thirty
thousand men the name of an army if they be not
billeted in their several quarters under the orders of
their officers, or a great heap of stones and building
materials the name of a house large or small till they
be properly put together to make a finished structure”
“...books are put there [i.e.in a library] for no other
reason than to be serviceable as need arises. This,
however, is impossible unless they be classified and
arranged according to subject matter, or in such other
fashion as will facilitate their being found at specified
places. I affirm, moreover, that without this order and
arrangement a collection of books of whatever size,
were it fifty thousand volumes, would no more merit
the name of a library than an assembly of thirty
thousand men the name of an army if they be not
billeted in their several quarters under the orders of
their officers, or a great heap of stones and building
materials the name of a house large or small till they
be properly put together to make a finished structure”
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