Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.
Walt Whitman (1876). “Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed”
