"For books are not absolutely dead things, but ... he who destroys a good book, kills Reason itself, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the Earth; but a good Book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
John Milton
Speech about printing in England 1644
Editorial on 02/19/2014