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...would "rather have written Alice in Wonderland than the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...trade reports with his right. Between lectures on political science he cried out for laughing social philosophers, showing that, while Cardinal Newman had only asked for light, Charles Dickens had given it, and brazenly declaring that he would rather have written Alice's Adventures in Wonderland than the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Encyclopaedia Britannica declares, however, that "the earliest astronomers universally regarded the earth as a sphere." It is also said that, according to Aristotle, the mathematicians of his day computed the circumference of the earth to be 400,000 stadia. The length of the stadium being variable, this figure is rather indefinite...
...Encyclopaedia Would Help...
These questions are not answered very well in our official pamphlets, but they can be partly cleared up, at least. A few hours with the Encyclopaedia Britannica will do something. A Saturday afternoon spent in glancing over parts of certain reserved books in the reading room will do more. A series of talks with men who have taken--or given, for that matter courses in these unknown subjects will probably be better still. This may sound like a dull and needless job. But the advantages of a wise choice, and the many and varied misfortunes that follow...