Proper System of Reading by Blakey

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 10, 1878

Proper System of Reading.

By Blakey

A PROPER and judicious system of reading is of the highest importance. Two things are necessary in perusing the mental labors of others; namely, not to read too much, and to pay great attention to the nature of what you do read. Many persons peruse books for the express and avowed purpose of consuming time; and this class of readers forms by far the majority of what are termed the reading public; a habit more injurious in its influence on mind and character can hardly be imagined. Others, again, read with the laudable anxiety of being made wiser; and when this object is not attained, the disappointment may generally be attributed, either to the habit of reading too much, or of paying insufficient attention to what falls under their notice.—Blakey.