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031 - Intellectual - Chapter 10 · Short History of Pittsburgh

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  Speaker 1: Section thirty of Short History of Pittsburgh by Samuel harden Church.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Read by
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  Speaker 1: Tatiana Chicchilla, Section thirty intellectual, chapter ten. One word more
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  Speaker 1: before leaving this subject. Literature has not until recently enjoyed
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  Speaker 1: that degree of attention from the public press of Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: which it deserves. It ought to be the concern of
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  Speaker 1: every human unit in the nation to receive honest guidance
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  Speaker 1: in the development of literature. For literature once again, is
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  Speaker 1: the written record of thought and action. Mobs will melt
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  Speaker 1: away when the units in the mob begin to think,
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  Speaker 1: and they will think when they read. Then will the
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  Speaker 1: law be paramount, and then will our institutions be safe.
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  Speaker 1: Thousands of our serious people annually subscribe for literary reviews
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  Speaker 1: of one kind or another, in order that they may
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  Speaker 1: follow the rapid expansion of the written record of the
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  Speaker 1: thought and action of the world. When the whole department
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  Speaker 1: might be covered so admirably by our daily newspapers, should
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  Speaker 1: not the newspaper give each household practically all it needs
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  Speaker 1: in criticism and information outside of the printed books themselves.
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  Speaker 1: How easily we could spare some of the glaring and
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  Speaker 1: exaggerated headlines over the daily record of crime, misconduct, and
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  Speaker 1: false leadership, which inflame the mind and the passions with
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  Speaker 1: evil fire. And how joyfully we would welcome instead an intelligent, conscientious, comprehensive,
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  Speaker 1: discriminating piquant, in short, a masterful discussion, from day to day,
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  Speaker 1: of the written record of the thought and action of
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  Speaker 1: the world, as unfolded in statesmanship, its oratory, its education,
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  Speaker 1: its heroism, and its literature. End of section thirty