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Title

Beware of Bad Books

Authors

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Summary

"WHY, what harm will books do me? The same harm that personal intercourse would with the bad men who wrote them. If a good book can be read without making one better, a bad book cannot be read without making one worse. ... Here we have a definition of what we mean by" bad books:" whatever books neither feed the mind nor purify the heart, but intoxicate the mind and corrupt the heart."

Series

Revised Series;32

Publication Date

August 2011

Keywords

reading, books

Comments

Late 19th century Methodist Episcopal tract, Revised Series. Old URL: http://ecommons.asburyseminary.edu/xmlui/handle/10910/17335

Language

English