p. 16 | Fiction and Character

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jan 31, 1906

Fiction and Character

The Navy Department is said to be buying $15,000 worth of books to furnish and replenish libraries for the crews of war-vessels. In this connection, especially concerning the need of replenishing, it is said that "on the training-ship Pensacola, at San Francisco, many books, notably those of fiction, have been so worn by constant handling as to be out of issue; so it has been decided to replenish." It is a serious question, How much of growing unreliability in all branches of society is due to the inordinate reading of fiction? This report from the naval training-ship is only an instance. The same principle prevails elsewhere, and fiction food produces fictitious men and women.