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and for this reason the verifying scholars followed other paths, known to whoever has looked into their books.

or were you to verify that some of the Arab authors have muddled matters in their books, then do not judge that all the books of the Arabs are muddle and idle talk.

Upon them it rests and to them it returns in all its demonstrations and its proofs — as you have seen at the beginning of the books of geometry and others.

Taking it for granted that the question, Whether the sale of a book unreservedly, implies a sale, for use, of the ideas described in it?

It will be seen at once that much of the same reasoning, that is applicable to books, and the ideas described in them, is applicable also to machines, and the ideas, after which they are constructed.

But although it might be dangerous to give notice, simply of a reservation of “copyright,” where still other rights were intended to be reserved—as in the case of books describing valuable mechanical inventions, and also in the case of dramatic and musical compositions, where the right of performing the pieces was intended to be reserved—it might, nevertheless, be highly judicious, to give notice …

hold to the keeping in memory rather than to the amassing of what is written — every man has of his age what he has grown used to;

“English Parliaments have all along been most zealous for preserving this great Jewel of Liberty, trials by juries having no less than fifty-eight several times, since the Norman Conquest, been established and confirmed by the legislative power, no one privilege besides having been ever so often remembered in parliament.

An old book, called “English Liberties,” says:

9 — Do not busy yourself with books, commending their titles and taking pains over their arrangement and ordering while you are slack about what is in them and about mastering it, so becoming like the money-changers, who wear out their bodies for others.

12 — I have seen some people take pains over buying books and arranging them and spending the bulk of their hours upon this;

Legal possession does not necessarily coincide either with actual physical control or the present power thereof (the “detention” of Continental terminology), or with the right to possess (constantly called “property” in our books);

Having studied the book, the wise one—[having grasped its truth] through knowledge and realized insight—should discard the book entirely, just as one seeking the grain [discards] the palāla (chaff/straw left after threshing grain).

all else is [mere] elaboration of books.

Six years ago I embodied the thing in a little book entitled Labour Capitalisation, and I have ever since been assailed (especially by individualists) as the patentee of a quack pill for the cure of poverty.