Do not suppose however that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all or almost all the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
Man has as it were become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
