What a teacher imparts by word of mouth is nothing in comparison with what he teaches us to get for ourselves from books. - Georges Duhamel

Is it possible to create a maintain a true culture, a strong and flourishing culture, through the medium of pictoral and oral apparatus?

… the cinema and the radio and the effect they have had in weakening the impulse to spiritual effort

The book is one of the springs of creative individualism, that individualism which, in these uncertain times, remains the guardian angel of human society. For five hundred years the book has been, for the solitary mind, an incomparable instrument of uplift and liberation.