Monday, August 31, 2015

Libraries are hospitals for the soul

According to the Kluge Center blog
Later in life, as he reflected on his career, Jaroslav Pelikan spoke eloquently about a lifetime of scholarly learning and how libraries, and the knowledge housed within them, are hospitals for the soul, where “the soul can find instruments for diagnosis”–where men and women have recorded the pains of the heart and mind, and deposited their wisdom for its convalescence. “To the library the soul can turn for healing,” Pelikan said. “We can make our lives sublime.”[2]
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