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

If the public gets out of the habit of reading they will not come back to it. We shall enter a new phase of our history from which there is no turning back.

When I say, “Beware of the radio if you want to improve your mind,” … I am warning the public against their worst enemy, conformity.

Just as we say “listening and hearing,” “looking and seeing,” so we ought to have two expressions to distinguish active reading from passive.