THE LIBRARY PAST AND FUTURE 229 



Thus shall those noble and solitary spirits who worked unknown in 

 the dark of the seventeenth century and in the wan eighteenth century, 

 be joined, by an invisible chain, to the vigorous intellects which, in 

 the last century and in that upon which we have just entered, are 

 working, are toiling, in the diffused light of civilization, and will con- 

 tinue to work and will continue to toil for science, for humanity. 



And the card, the humble card, the winged arrow of the librarian 

 and of the student, will fly from continent to continent, a messenger 

 of knowledge and of concord. 



